Patent ID: 7616635

Claim:
A network controller comprising: an address filter, the address filter to receive a data packet, the data packet including a destination address, a data payload, and an error word for the data packet, the address filter to determine that the destination address of the data packet is a shared address for a plurality of devices; a sideband filter to receive the data packet from the address filter, the sideband filter to search the data payload of the data packet to identify an intended recipient device for the data packet based on information contained in the data payload of the data packet; an address mapper to map the information contained in the data payload to an address for the intended recipient device, the address mapper to substitute the address for the intended recipient device in place of the shared address of the data packet, calculate a new error word for the data packet including the substituted address, and to substitute the new error word in place of the error word contained in the data packet; and a sideband interface to direct the data packet to the intended recipient device based on the substituted address.