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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2000
Applicant:
Lior Shabtay, Ganei Tikva, IL;
Inventor:
Lior Shabtay, Ganei Tikva, IL;
Assignee:
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of accelerating the operation of a load balancer by an accelerator switch. The method includes receiving, by the accelerator switch, packets directed to the load balancer, determining, for at least some of the received packets, whether the packets match an entry of a list of packet groups, by comparing fewer than five parameters of the packets to respective fields of entries of the list, and forwarding, by the accelerator switch, at least some of the received packets, directly to their destination, responsive to the determining.