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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2011
Constantine Gavrilov, Tel Aviv, IL;
Zorik Machulsky, Gesher HaZiv, IL;
Leah Shalev, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Constantine Gavrilov, Tel Aviv, IL;
Zorik Machulsky, Gesher HaZiv, IL;
Leah Shalev, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided to improve efficiency of systems operating on internet protocol (IP) over Infiniband (IB) networks. One mechanism includes multicasting a first ARP request from a source node, the first ARP request including an IP address of a source port of the source node, and performing load-balancing of host traffic across a plurality of ports of a plurality of nodes by sending a reply from a destination node corresponding to the IP address included in the first ARP request, the reply being sent over the source port to the source node.