Patent ID: 8090859

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving one or more packets, at a proxy node in a system area network, from a first node that generated the one or more packets by translating the one or more packets from a first transport-layer connection-oriented protocol to a second transport-layer connection-oriented protocol in response to an examined file descriptor being of a first type; translating the one or more packets to the first transport-layer connection-oriented protocol, which is used by a second node, to create one or more translated packets, the translating comprising managing first and second endpoints corresponding to the first and second protocols; processing, on behalf of the first node, the one or more translated packets according to the first transport-layer connection-oriented protocol; and sending the one or more translated packets from the proxy node to the second node; wherein the first type comprises transport, being of a partition of a file descriptor range, and the examined file descriptor is associated with a call corresponding to an application program interface for the first transport-layer connection-oriented protocol.