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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2000
Hariprasad Mankude, Fremont, CA (US);
Sohrab Modi, Oakland, CA (US);
Kevin Fox, San Jose, CA (US);
Mahalingam Mani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sankar Ramamoorthi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A scalable cluster system that provides scalable services for client applications is provided with a forwarding list. The scalable services are transparent to the client application. To facilitate this transparent scalability, the system provides a forwarding list. For various operational reasons, such as tuning the system, an operator may change the work distribution weights between nodes of a scalable cluster system. Such a change in work distribution weights may change how packets are assigned to nodes. Forwarding lists are provided so that if the work distribution weights are changed while there are existing connections the forwarding lists allow packets from existing connections to go to the same node as earlier packets from the same connection.