Patent ID: 7290050
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a plurality of first incoming frames, each of the first incoming frames carrying a frame payload and having an incoming source IP address, an incoming source MAC address, an incoming destination IP address and an incoming destination MAC address; forwarding all of the first incoming frames to a first application platform, a first TCP connection being terminated on the first application platform, the frame payloads of the first incoming frames together comprising a first data portion, the first data portion being communicated across the first TCP connection; receiving a plurality of first outgoing frames from the first application platform, each of the first outgoing frames carrying a frame payload, the frame payloads of the first outgoing frames together comprising the first data portion; and outputting the first outgoing frames, each of the first outgoing frames having an outgoing source IP address that is identical to the incoming source IP address, an outgoing source MAC address that is identical to the incoming source MAC address, an outgoing destination IP address that is identical to the incoming destination IP address and an outgoing destination MAC address that is identical to the incoming destination MAC address.