METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING CONNECTIVITY IN A NETWORK

摘要

A method and system for maintaining connectivity in a network. The network includes a plurality of computational devices. A first computational device includes a main processor and a co-processor. The first computational device receives the at least one data frame from a second computational device and forwards the at least one data frame to a third computational device by using the co-processor without intervention from the main processor by using network protocols corresponding to layer-2 and layer- 1 of Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model.