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Performance of connection flow management between a hardware-based network interface
and a software module of a network traffic management device is disclosed. A flow …

Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for net work flow state preservation
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The present invention is a method, circuit and system for detecting, reporting and preventing
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302 3O4 packet, wherein the alternate header contains information of the IP data packet;
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(57) ABSTRACT A systemand method for improving TCP performance in a L2 tunneling
environment by Snooping TCP/IP packets from the tunnel interface, terminating TCP locally …