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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1997
Christian Lita, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Raymond Thompson, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of managing connection requests from an application supported on a client. The client has a modem connectable to at least one server via a dialup computer network. According to the method, a list is maintained of the local Internet Protocol (IP) addresses assigned as modem connections are established to the dialup computer network during a session. The list is preferably in Last In, First Out (LIFO) order and includes a latest IP address as the last entry and one or more stale IP addresses. In response to a connection request associated with a stale IP address, the stale IP address is mapped to the latest IP address. The connection request is then redirected using the latest IP address. Preferably, client supports a proxy server which services the connection request locally if possible to avoid network traffic.