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US 8,948,193 B2Granted
Methods for intelligent NIC bonding and load-balancing
AssigneeCheck Point Software Technologies Ltd.
InventorsAmnon Perlmutter, Benzi Waisman
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AssigneeCheck Point Software Technologies Ltd.
InventorsAmnon Perlmutter, Benzi Waisman
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Methods, devices, and media for intelligent NIC bonding and load-balancing including the steps of: providing a packet at an incoming-packet port of a gateway; attaching an incoming-port identification, associated with the incoming-packet port, to the packet; routing the packet to a processing core; passing the packet through a gateway processing; sending the packet, by the core, to the operating system of a host system; and routing the packet to an outgoing-packet port of the gateway based on the incoming-port identification. Preferably, the gateway processing includes security processing of the packets. Preferably, the step of routing the packet to the outgoing-packet port is based solely on the incoming-port identification. Preferably, an outgoing-port identification, associated with the outgoing-packet port, has an identical bond-index to the incoming-port identification. Preferably, the gateway includes a plurality of incoming-packet ports, a plurality of respective incoming-port identifications, a plurality of processing cores, and a plurality of outgoing-packet ports.
A method for intelligent NIC bonding and load-balancing, the method comprising the steps of
A gateway device for intelligent NIC bonding and load-balancing, the device comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for causing intelligent NIC bonding and load-balancing, the computer-readable code comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.