Patent ID: 9141502
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: preloading a shared library for one or more applications on at least one of a first host and a second host; aliasing a unique IP address of the one or more applications, by the shared library, to an IP address on the first host where the one or more applications are running; migrating the one or more applications' unique IP address to the second host as part of a migration of the one or more applications; and capturing, by a bridge at an IP layer of a TCP/IP stack of the first host, a state of the one or more applications' TCP/IP connections on the first host and transferring said state to the TCP/IP stack on the second host as part of the migration; wherein said unique IP address is assigned to each of the one or more applications by the preloaded shared library.