Patent ID: 6275953
Filing Date: 2001-08-14
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method of operating data processors for servicing clients in a network, each of the data processors having a respective network interface for interfacing to the network, each network interface having a respective network address, and each network interlace being programmable for setting the network address of said each network interface, said method comprising the steps of:responding to a failure of a failed data processor by setting the network address of the network interface of an operational data processor to the network address of the network interface of the failed data processor; and thensaid operational data processor servicing client requests received by the network interface of the operational data processor wherein the network interface of the operational data processor is programmed with a physical network address of the network interface of the failed data processor, and the method further includes the operational data processor using a logical network address corresponding to the physical network address of the network interface of the failed data processor for the servicing of the client requests received by the network interface of the operational data processor.