Patent ID: 7467229
Filing Date: 2008-12-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: configuring one or more servers of one or more local area networks, by a management console coupled from outside the one or more local area networks to each of the one or more servers via one or more networks, to route packets with one or more public network addresses associated with the one or more servers as destination addresses to a router remotely disposed in another local area network, the routing to be through one or more networking tunnels through the one or more networks correspondingly coupling the one or more servers to the router communicatively, and the one or more public network addresses including a range of Internet Protocol addresses, wherein the one or more networking tunnels employ corresponding private addresses and an unauthenticated communication protocol to communicatively couple the one or more servers to the router; and configuring the router, by the management console, to route said packets with the one or more public network addresses as destination addresses to at least one recipient server coupled to the router and located in the another local area network for processing by the at least one recipient server.