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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kishore Karighattam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sujalendu Das, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/05 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/05 ;
Abstract
There is provided a communication network and method for enhancing server availability to client PCS which includes two Ethernet switches. Each one of the two Ethernet switches is connected to a corresponding one of the primary and secondary network interface cards in the file server PC. The two Ethernet switches are interconnected together through an uplink port. As a result, redundancy has been effectively and efficiently provided against the failure of either one of the two switches in order to enable link fail-over across two network segments.