NETWORK CONNECTOR OFF-LOADING COMMUNICATION START PROCESSING AND METHOD USING IT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem of a conventional network connector that has required an increased reply time that is due to a processing time for software processing of a protocol stack required before replying a response to a communication start request in communication start processing, especially a 3-way hand- shake in a TCP and that is clearly in existence as a cause to increase in the replay time when the communication speed of a network is increased and especially eminent in a protocol repeating establishment and interruption of a connection such as the HTTP. SOLUTION: The network connector 40 being a part of a communication system has a sequence number generating means 430 that generates an initial value of a sequence number required to be added to a reply packet with respect to a communication start request, a notice means 412 that informs a communication protocol stack 60 about the sequence number initial value, a reply generating means 450 that adds the sequence number initial value to the replay packet and a transmission means 470 that returns the reply packet.