Providing communications between operating system partitions and a computer network. In
one aspect, an apparatus for distributing network communications among multiple operating
system partitions includes a physical port allowing communications between the network
and the computer system, and logical ports associated with the physical port, where each
logical port is associated with one of the operating system partitions. Each of the logical
ports enables communication between a physical port and the associated operating system …

… the present invention relates to communication in computer networks, and more
particularly to communications between operating system partitions and computer networks.
Computer systems communicate with each other over networks by establishing and using
network connections using well known standards such as Ethernet. … the present invention
relates to communication in computer networks, and more particularly to communications
between operating system partitions and computer networks. …