Patent ID: 8413173

Claim:
A method for loading a first and second Internet Protocol network communication stacks in an information handling system (IHS) having a kernel socket layer and a communications device driver, the method comprising: loading the first Internet Protocol network communication stack; creating and registering a module management kernel thread to automatically load the second Internet Protocol network communication stack only when called upon, wherein the second Internet Protocol network communication stack corresponds to Internet Protocol version 6 (Ipv6) communications; registering the kernel thread with the kernel socket layer of the IHS and communications device driver to receive from either a notice of calls corresponding to the second Internet Protocol network communication stack, wherein the notice of calls corresponding to the second Internet Protocol network communication stack includes an identifier comprising a three-octet subset of a media access control (MAC) address; and loading by the kernel thread of the second Internet Protocol network communication stack upon receiving notice of calls corresponding to the second Internet Protocol network communication stack only if the first two octets of the identifier include the value 33:33 and the third octet does not include the value 0xFF.