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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2005
Ashutosh K. Jha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ayaz Abdulla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hemamalini Manickavasagam, San Jose, CA (US);
Anand Rajagopalan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Paul J. Sidenblad, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ashutosh K. Jha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ayaz Abdulla, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hemamalini Manickavasagam, San Jose, CA (US);
Anand Rajagopalan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Paul J. Sidenblad, Cupertino, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention sets forth an approach for aggregating a plurality of NICs in a computing device into a single logical NIC as seen by that computing device's operating system. The combination of the single logical NIC and a network resource manager provides a reliable and persistent interface to the operating system and to the network hardware, thereby improving the reliability and ease-of-configuration of the computing device. The invention also may improve communications security by supporting the 802.1X and the 802.1Q networking standards.