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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2001
David M. Bornstein, Westwood, MA (US);
Stephen Jeffrey Morris, Westford, MA (US);
James W. O'toole, Jr., Somerville, MA (US);
David M. Bornstein, Westwood, MA (US);
Stephen Jeffrey Morris, Westford, MA (US);
James W. O'Toole, Jr., Somerville, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In a computational device, a technique provides network communications to a virtual machine. In particular, the technique includes receiving a first communications signal having a first address and data from an external device, performing a network address translation operation based on the first communications signal to obtain a second address that identifies the virtual machine and providing a second communications signal having the second address and the data, to the virtual machine. The technique may further include using an external network Internet Protocol address and port identifier and to translate the first communications signal into an internal network Internet Protocol address by accessing an entry of a network address translation table.