METHOD FOR GENERATING SOCKET STRUCTURE SUPPORTING BOTH TOE AND EHTERNET NIC AND COMMUNICATION METHOD USING THE SOCKET STRUCTURE AND RECORDING MEDIUM THE SOCKET STRUCTURE

摘要

A method for creating a socket structure which supports both a TOE(TCP/IP Offload Engine) and an ethernet NIC(Network Interface Card), a communication method using the socket structure, and a recording medium storing the socket structure are provided to present a socket structure supporting both a TOE and an ethernet NIC without modifying an existing application program or socket interface. A recording medium storing a socket structure which supports both a TOE and an ethernet NIC comprises an NIC management module(330) and a TOE management module(340). The NIC management module stores and manages pointer information for a socket structure to support a BSD(Berkeley Software Distribution) socket interface. The TOE management module stores and manages "toenic_sock_id", ID information for a socket(toenic_sock) which is directly managed in TOE hardware.