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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2000
Robert N. M. Watson, Bethesda, MD (US);
Darrell Kindred, Columbia, MD (US);
Ed Lewis, Crownsville, MD (US);
Brian Niebuhr, Columbia, MD (US);
Olafur Gudmundsson, Washington, DC (US);
Robert N. M. Watson, Bethesda, MD (US);
Darrell Kindred, Columbia, MD (US);
Ed Lewis, Crownsville, MD (US);
Brian Niebuhr, Columbia, MD (US);
Olafur Gudmundsson, Washington, DC (US);
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for negotiating multi-path connections between a plurality of intermediary devices, such as boundary controllers, in a networked computing environment is described. A client-side communications session is established between a requesting client and an intermediary device available from a plurality of intermediary devices on a primary communications channel in accordance with a connection-oriented network protocol. A server-side communications session is established between the intermediary device and the requested server on a primary communications channel in accordance with the connection-oriented network protocol. Differences in routing parameters defined for the client-side communications session and the server-side communications session are determined. The routing parameter differences are communicated to at least one other such intermediary device over an out-of-band communications channel.