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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2005
Claude Basso, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jean Louis Calvignac, Raleigh, NC (US);
Chih-jen Chang, Apex, NC (US);
Philippe Damon, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ronald Edward Fuhs, Rochester, MN (US);
Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Carrboro, NC (US);
Fabrice Jean Verplanken, La Gaude, FR;
Colin Beaton Verrilli, Apex, NC (US);
Scott Michael Willenborg, Stewartville, MN (US);
Kyle A. Lucke, Rochester, MN (US);
Harvey G. Kiel, Rochester, MN (US);
Claude Basso, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jean Louis Calvignac, Raleigh, NC (US);
Chih-jen Chang, Apex, NC (US);
Philippe Damon, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ronald Edward Fuhs, Rochester, MN (US);
Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Carrboro, NC (US);
Fabrice Jean Verplanken, La Gaude, FR;
Colin Beaton Verrilli, Apex, NC (US);
Scott Michael Willenborg, Stewartville, MN (US);
Kyle A. Lucke, Rochester, MN (US);
Harvey G. Kiel, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Providing communications between operating system partitions and a computer network. In one aspect, an apparatus for distributing network communications among multiple operating system partitions includes a physical port allowing communications between the network and the computer system, and logical ports associated with the physical port, where each logical port is associated with one of the operating system partitions. Each of the logical ports enables communication between a physical port and the associated operating system partition and allows configurability of network resources of the system. Other aspects include a logical switch for logical and physical ports, and packet queues for each connection and for each logical port.