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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2009
William R. Baumann, Seattle, WA (US);
William R. Baumann, Seattle, WA (US);
F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A method, computer readable medium, and system for handling network packets at an application delivery controller includes receiving a packet from a communication network at a network interface controller within the application delivery controller and associating the received packet with a logical interface selected from a plurality of logical interfaces in at least one processing system using a mapping engine at the network interface controller, where each of the plurality of logical interfaces associated with a different physical address. At the network interface controller a physical address is assigned to the received packet corresponding to the selected logical interface to which data in the received packet is to be sent and a virtual address associated with the physical address in the network interface controller is retrieved. Data in the received packet and the retrieved virtual address is transmitted to the at least one processing system.