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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Applicant:
F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey Michael Warren, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Michael Thornewell, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/805 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/36 (2013.01); H04L 41/028 (2013.01);
Abstract
A traffic management device (TMD) is situated between a one or more network devices providing jumbo network traffic and one or more device providing non-jumbo network traffic. The TMD is configured to employ TCP segmentation offload hardware within a Network Interface Card (NIC) at the level two/four layers of the OSI stack by rewriting maximum segment size (MSS) information during initial handshake operations, such that jumbo frames may be split into digestible size frames for a non-jumbo network communications.