Patent ID: 7143183

Claim:
A modularly designed server having a plurality of server modules, each server module of said plurality of server modules comprising: at least one data processor that data processes a data packet; at least one addressable communication interface that connects said server module to a first local network via which the data packet is transmittable; and a switching interface that connects said server module to a switching device of the modularly designed server to forward the data packet received by the at least one addressable communication interface to a second server module of the modularly designed server connected to a second local network, said switching interface including a routing calculator that calculates an internal server module address using a routing table based upon a utilization level of data processors of said plurality of server modules of the modularly designed server, such that forwarding of the data packet requires no independent router; wherein one server module of the plurality of server modules is provided as a routing server module that periodically updates the routing table in accordance with evaluated utilization data of other server modules, the routing server module transmitting a current routing table to the other server modules.