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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2003
Michael I. Thompson, Colfax, CA (US);
Michael I. Thompson, Colfax, CA (US);
QLOGIC, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for transmitting and receiving TCP/IP data packets using a hardware engine is provided. The system includes an inbound MAC Receive state machine for processing MAC frames received from a network; an inbound IP verifier state machine for verifying IP packet headers; an inbound IP fragment processing state machine for processing and reassembling IP fragments; and an inbound TCP state machine for processing TCP segments received from an IP layer. The system also includes an outbound MAC Transmit state machine that sends MAC frames to a network; an outbound IP state machine that processes IP data to be passed to a MAC layer for transmission; and an outbound TCP state machine that processes TCP data to be passed to the IP layer for transmission.