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US 2013/0232575 A1Published application
Controlling ipsec offload enablement during hardware failures
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKokil K. Deuri, Vishal R. Mansur, Arpana Prashanth, Dilip K. Singh
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Abstract
Provided are techniques for receiving a packet transmitted in conjunction with a security association associated with Internet Protocol Security (IPSec); determining, based upon the security Association that the packet is faulty; incrementing a count corresponding to previous faulty packets received; determining that the count exceeds a threshold; and disabling IPSec accelerator hardware in response to the determining that the count exceeds the threshold.
Claims7
A method, comprising;
- receiving a packet transmitted in conjunction with a security association associated with Internet Protocol Security (IPSec);
- determining, based upon the security Association that the packet is faulty;
- incrementing a count corresponding to previous faulty packets received;
- determining that the count exceeds a threshold;
- and
- disabling IPSec accelerator hardware in response to the determining that the count exceeds the threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.