| 摘要 |
<p>An adapter card (108) for managing connections between clients (109) and a network server (106) off-loads the connection management burden from the server (106). The adapter card (108) includes a memory (124) with an embedded proxy application (132) and a communication protocol stack (134), a processing unit (126) for executing the application code, a network controller (129) for interfacing with an internetwork (102), and a bus protocol bridge (128) for interfacing with the internal bus (120) of the network server (106). The proxy application (132) receives client requests on behalf of the server (106) over relatively slow and unreliable network connections, and submits the requests to the server over fast, reliable bus connections.</p> |
