Patent ID: 8605609
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of simulating communications with a plurality of network nodes comprising: assigning a contiguous range of plural network addresses to a simulation node on a network that respectively correspond to a plurality of simulated nodes on the network; monitoring communications on the network at said simulation node to detect data packets; determining whether a detected data packet has a destination address within the assigned contiguous range of network addresses; in response to a determination that the destination address of a detected packet is within the assigned contiguous range, processing a command in said packet and returning a result; storing the destination address of a detected packet that is within the assigned contiguous range in a first-in first-out buffer while said command is being processed; and when the result is returned, retrieving the stored address sequentially in the order in which the detected packets were received; and transmitting a response packet having said result with the destination address of the detected packet as the source address of said response packet.