Virtuelles Vernetzungssystem und -verfahren in einem Verarbeitungssystem

摘要

A system and method for virtual networking (100). Switched Ethernet local area network semantics are provided over an underlying point to point mesh. Computer processor nodes may directly communicate via virtual interfaces over a switch fabric or they may communicate via an ethernet switch emulator (115a, 115b). ARP (adress resolution protocol) logic (135) is used to associate IP adresses with virtual interfaces while allowing computer processors to reply to ARP requests with virtual MAC addresses.