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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2011
Robert O. Sharp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kenneth G. Keels, Georgetown, TX (US);
Brian S. Hausauer, Austin, TX (US);
John S. Lacombe, Austin, TX (US);
Robert O. Sharp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Kenneth G. Keels, Georgetown, TX (US);
Brian S. Hausauer, Austin, TX (US);
John S. Lacombe, Austin, TX (US);
Intel-Ne, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A flexible arrangement allows a single arrangement of Ethernet channel adapter (ECA) hardware functions to appear as needed to conform to various operating system deployment models. A PCI interface presents a logical model of virtual devices appropriate to the relevant operating system. Mapping parameters and values are associated with the packet streams to allow the packet streams to be properly processed according to the presented logical model and needed operations. Mapping occurs at both the host side and at the network side to allow the multiple operations of the ECA to be performed while still allowing proper delivery at each interface.