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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Roy F Brabson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Alfred B Christensen, Durham, NC (US);
Constantinos Kassimis, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A TCP/IP socket extension may bind a single socket to more than one IP address. The socket API extension may allow a user to bind a socket to a list of IP addresses instead of a single IP address. Additional socket APIs may allow applications to bind an existing socket to one or more additional IP addresses. Bind-specific support may enhance a user's capability to specify one or more IPv4 addresses and/or IPv6 addresses or other addresses to bind to a generic server information handling system (IHS). The method may convert a generic server IHS into a bind-specific server IHS that accepts new connections over both the IPv4 and IPv6 network transports and/or other network transports without requiring changes to the server IHS. A modified TCP/IP stack may provide support for multiple sockets. The method may map multiple address/port/protocol tuples to the same socket.