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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
May. 31, 2000
Bruce H. Ratcliff, Red Hook, NY (US);
Arthur J. Stagg, Raleigh, NC (US);
Stephen R. Valley, Valatie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A facility is provided to allow for dynamic configuration of data routing between TCP/IP stacks of multiple partitions of a multi-partition processing system and a network adapter such as a local area network (LAN) gateway for the multi-partition processing system. The facility includes a command for automatically providing the network adapter with information that a particular partition of the processing system is to function as a router; and using the information at the network adapter to forward data received across the network to the partition when the data is to an unregistered HOME internet protocol (IP) address. The forwarding of data to the router partition occurs without any conventional IP processing.