Patent ID: 8792486

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a packet addressed to a network address associated with an enclosure, by a networking switch processor of a networking switch within the enclosure, the networking switch connected to a server device within the enclosure and to a management mechanism within the enclosure; in response to determining that the packet pertains to first communication having a specified bandwidth greater than a threshold, routing the packet by the networking switch processor directly to a management processor of the server device without the packet passing through the management mechanism, the management mechanism separate from the server device that includes the management processor; and, in response to determining that the packet pertains to second communication having a specified bandwidth less than the threshold, routing the packet by the networking switch processor to an enclosure processor of the management mechanism, wherein the management processor and the enclosure processor share the network address associated with the enclosure, such that the network address is associated with the enclosure in that the management processor and the enclosure processor that are within the enclosure are associated with the network address, wherein a bandwidth of each of the first communication and the second communication is a throughput of data transfer thereof.