SELECTIVELY REFRESHING ADDRESS REGISTRATION INFORMATION

摘要

Facilitating communications within a processing environment. Inbound traffic and outbound traffic on one or more virtual interfaces of the processing environment are monitored for a predefined amount of time. Based on the monitoring, a determination is made as to whether for a selected component of a virtual interface of the one or more virtual interfaces an inbound frame has been received but an outbound frame has not been transmitted for the predetermined amount of time. Based on determining that the inbound frame has been received but the outbound frame has not been transmitted, a generated outbound frame is forwarded to cause address registration information for the virtual interface to be refreshed.

主权项

1. A computer program product for facilitating communications within a processing environment, said computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
monitoring, for a predefined amount of time, inbound traffic and outbound traffic on a virtual interface of the processing environment;determining based on the monitoring whether for a selected component of the virtual interface an inbound frame has been received but an outbound frame has not been transmitted for the predefined amount of time; andbased on determining that the inbound frame has been received but the outbound frame has not been transmitted, forwarding a generated outbound frame to cause address registration information for the virtual interface to be refreshed.