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Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);

Nicholas J. Rogness, Rochester, MN (US);

Steven E. Royer, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/775 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/58 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 2212/0025 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for encapsulating a packet within a virtualized network. The method includes writing one or more first translation control entries (TCEs) from a TCE table of a client system to a TCE table of a host system, and writing one or more second TCEs to the TCE table of the host system. The first TCEs indicate a location within the client system of payload data for the packet, and the second TCEs indicate a location within the host system of at least one of header and footer information to be included with the payload data.


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