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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Applicant:
Shivi Fotedar, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Shivi Fotedar, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Force 10 Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); G06F 9/34 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A networking system including virtually addressed devices is described. A network device has one or more virtual addresses assigned to its loopback interface. Once so assigned and the loopback interface enabled, data and commands directed to any of the assigned virtual addresses is sent through the device's protocol stack. The device is then structured to act on the data and commands destined for the virtual address.