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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Heidi R. Pickreign, Harvard, MA (US);
Laxminarayan Krishnamurthy, Acton, MA (US);
Christopher J. Duguay, Winchendon, MA (US);
Assignee:
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/127 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/127 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for implementing a self-diagnostic capability in a network interface adapter in which failure data is provided to a host processor. The host processor may report the failure data to a user or additionally the host processor may attempt to correct predetermined faults in code images by writing a valid code image to a memory on the network interface adapter.