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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Lawrence Lo, Issaquah, WA (US);
Karl Mills, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Adam W. Lew, Redmond, WA (US);
Mehmood Nurmohamed, Bothell, WA (US);
Lawrence Lo, Issaquah, WA (US);
Karl Mills, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Adam W. Lew, Redmond, WA (US);
Mehmood Nurmohamed, Bothell, WA (US);
AVOCENT HUNTSVILLE CORP., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
A digital rack interface pod (DRIP) that is able to establish a communications link between a remote access appliance and a server having a USB port and a video port, to facilitate a keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) session between the server and the appliance. The DRIP is also able to establish a communications link between the appliance and an Ethernet port of the server that is associated with a service processor (SP) of the server. In this manner the DRIP is able to route data from the SP of the server to the appliance as well as communications from the appliance to the SP Ethernet port of the server. The DRIP is able to intelligently determine which packets of information received from the appliance are intended for the SP Ethernet port of the server and routes those packets to the SP Ethernet port of the server. The DRIP also automatically monitors and dynamically reassigns its two Ethernet ports as needed so that whichever one of its two Ethernet ports it discovers a connection with the appliance on will be the port that it continues using to communicate with the appliance.