Patent ID: 8214531

Claim:
A method for updating network configuration of an accelerated hardware of a processing system, the method comprising: providing a first bidirectional network processing path comprising a OS network stack, the first bidirectional network processing path having a first network configuration and adapted to provide a first network interface for the processing system; providing a second bidirectional network processing path comprising the accelerated hardware, the second bidirectional network processing path having a second network configuration and adapted to provide a second network interface for the processing system; detecting a network topology change; updating the first network configuration of the first bidirectional network processing path in response to the network topology change by reconfiguring the OS network stack; updating a network configuration store in response to changes to the first network configuration of the first bidirectional network processing path, the network configuration store being a part of the processing system; and updating the second network configuration in response to changes in the network configuration store by reconfiguring the accelerated hardware.