Integration of network line card (LC) into host operating system (OS)

摘要

A plurality of physical IO ports configured to concatenate a plurality of remote LCs that provide IO resources and a remote LC coupled to the plurality of physical IO ports and allocating at least some of the IO resources to the local vNIC Is mapped to a plurality of vNICs, receives an OS kernel IO call including a request to access the first vNIC among the vNICs, and determines the first remote LC corresponding to the first vNIC among the remote LCs And a processor configured to direct the request to access the first remote LC.