| US 7,509,435 B2 | ||
| Network Address Translation and Port Mapping | ||
| Andrew D. Dingsor, Durham, N.C. (US); and Craig A. Lanzen, Durham, N.C. (US) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 12, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/803,825. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2002/0129165 A1, Sep. 12, 2002 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 709—246 | 21 Claims |
| 1. A method of processing a client packet sent from a client to a NAT system including a NAT machine and a plurality of servers,
said NAT machine performing an inbound translation on said client packet and forwarding said translated client packet to one
of the plurality of servers, the method comprising the steps of:
preparing, by said one of the plurality of servers, a response packet responsive to the client packet;
performing, by said one of the plurality of servers, a translation operation on the response packet to produce a translated
response packet; and
transmitting the translated response packet directly to the client from said one of the plurality of servers, thereby bypassing
the NAT machine.
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