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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2005
Hemamalini Manickavasagam, San Jose, CA (US);
Ayaz Abdulla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Norman K. Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ashutosh K. Jha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas A. Maufer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sameer Nanda, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anand Rajagopalan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hemamalini Manickavasagam, San Jose, CA (US);
Ayaz Abdulla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Norman K. Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ashutosh K. Jha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas A. Maufer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sameer Nanda, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anand Rajagopalan, Saratoga, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is a method for identifying a faulty NIC in a team of NICs using a minimum number of packets transmitted in a round-robin scheme. Relative to prior art schemes, the disclosed method advantageously reduces the number of keep-alive packets necessary to monitor the NICs within a team and, to the extent there is a failure, enables the faulty NIC to be identified.