Conversion of data packets based on internet protocol version
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsParminder Singh Sethi, Atishay Jain, Anay Kishore
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Abstract
A method comprises receiving a data packet configured in accordance with a first network protocol version, and converting a header portion of the data packet to be configured in accordance with a second network protocol version. The converting comprises identifying a source network protocol address for a source of the data packet in the header portion in accordance with the second network protocol version, and identifying a destination network protocol address for a destination of the data packet in the header portion in accordance with the second network protocol version.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- configuring an adapter in firmware of a host device to perform conversion of a plurality of data packets between a first network protocol version and a second network protocol version;
- wherein the host device hosts an application to and from which the plurality of data packets are transmitted;
- and
- wherein the configuring is performed using a basic input output system of the host device and comprises identifying a port of the host device on which the conversion of the plurality of data packets is to be performed;
- receiving a data packet configured in accordance with the first network protocol version;
- and
- converting, via the adapter, a header portion of the data packet to be configured in accordance with the second network protocol version;
- wherein the converting comprises:
- identifying a source network protocol address for a source of the data packet in the header portion in accordance with the second network protocol version;
- and
- identifying a destination network protocol address for a destination of the data packet in the header portion in accordance with the second network protocol version;
- wherein the steps of the method are executed by a processing device operatively coupled to a memory.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a processing device operatively coupled to a memory and configured:
- to configure an adapter in firmware of a host device to perform conversion of a plurality of data packets between a first network protocol version and a second network protocol version;
- wherein the host device hosts an application to and from which the plurality of data packets are transmitted;
- and
- wherein the configuring is performed using a basic input output system of the host device and comprises identifying a port of the host device on which the conversion of the plurality of data packets is to be performed;
- to receive a data packet configured in accordance with the first network protocol version;
- and
- to convert, via the adapter, a header portion of the data packet to be configured in accordance with the second network protocol version;
- wherein, in converting the header portion of the data packet, the processing device is configured:
- to identify a source network protocol address for a source of the data packet in the header portion in accordance with the second network protocol version;
- and
- to identify a destination network protocol address for a destination of the data packet in the header portion in accordance with the second network protocol version.
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes said at least one processing device to perform the steps of:
- configuring an adapter in firmware of a host device to perform conversion of a plurality of data packets between a first network protocol version and a second network protocol version;
- wherein the host device hosts an application to and from which the plurality of data packets are transmitted;
- and
- wherein the configuring is performed using a basic input output system of the host device and comprises identifying a port of the host device on which the conversion of the plurality of data packets is to be performed;
- receiving a data packet configured in accordance with the first network protocol version;
- and
- converting, via the adapter, a header portion of the data packet to be configured in accordance with the second network protocol version;
- wherein, in converting the header portion of the data packet, the program code causes said at least one processing device:
- to identify a source network protocol address for a source of the data packet in the header portion in accordance with the second network protocol version;
- and
- to identify a destination network protocol address for a destination of the data packet in the header portion in accordance with the second network protocol version.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.