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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2015
Mellanox Technologies Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Noam Bloch, Bat Shlomo, IL;
Ariel Shachar, Jerusalem, IL;
Michael Kagan, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Lior Narkis, Petach Tikva, IL;
Shlomo Raikin, Moshav Ofer, IL;
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A network interface device includes a host interface for connection to a host processor and a network interface, which is configured to transmit and receive data packets over a network, and which comprises multiple distinct physical ports configured for connection to the network. Processing circuitry is configured to receive, via one of the physical ports, a data packet from the network and to decide, responsively to a destination identifier in the packet, whether to deliver a payload of the data packet to the host processor via the host interface or to forward the data packet to the network via another one of the physical ports.