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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1999
Pau-Chen Cheng, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
William Alton Fiveash, Austin, TX (US);
Vachaspathi Peter Kompella, Cary, NC (US);
Christiaan Blake Wenzel, Austin, TX (US);
Jacqueline Hegedus Wilson, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for use in data processing system for selecting rules to filter data for a tunnel. A request is received to create a tunnel to another data processing system. A granularity of information about the data processing system is identified to form an identified granularity. The identified granularity of the information about the data processing system is used to select a rule, which matches the identified granularity. This rule is placed in a filter, wherein the filter associates data packets with the tunnel.