NETWORK PROCESSOR SERVICE ARCHITECTURE INDEPENDENT OF PLATFORM AND OPERATING SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for providing an easily expandable network processor service architecture independent of a processor and an operating system. SOLUTION: The system is provided with plural portable individual function components equivalent to the specified segment of the device driver of a control processor. The function components are provided with low standard API and external API and execute various network processor functions such as the reception and transfer of packets on a network and the other functions required by the control processor so as to perform communication with a network processor and instruct it. The function components are designed so as to be adapted to the usable processor architectures and operating systems of various types and to enable a customer and a developer to customize and expand the usable network service.