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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2007
Michael Sean Mcgee, Austin, TX (US);
Darda Chang, Austin, TX (US);
Nambi Madhi, Austin, TX (US);
Matthew S. Reeves, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Sean McGee, Austin, TX (US);
Darda Chang, Austin, TX (US);
Nambi Madhi, Austin, TX (US);
Matthew S. Reeves, Austin, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a network computer system provides redundant Internet Protocol (IP) Multicast traffic flow on a group of physical ports and comprises virtualizing the group of physical ports into a single virtual Network Interface Controller (NIC), validating network connectivity in a logical group comprising at least one of the physical ports in the virtualized group, and responding to failure of a physical port that is actively receiving on an IP Multicast traffic flow by instigating failover of the actively received IP Multicast traffic flow to a physical port in the logical group with validated network connectivity.