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Cluster file system support for extended network service addresses

US10558535B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

William B. Brown · Austin, US
Poornima Gupte · Pune, IN
Frank Marschollek · Mainz, DE
Lance W. Russell · Rosanky, US
Rainer Wolafka · Bad Soden, DE
Rong Zeng · Nanjing, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 22, 2017
Grant date	Feb 11, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 16, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L61/5007
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer program product is provided for extending network services addresses, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, where the program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to identify, by the processor, a network event affecting a node of a network, wherein the node provides external access to the network using an Internet Protocol (IP) address, in response to identifying the network event, identify, by the processor, an attribute associated with the IP address, and based on the attribute associated with the IP address, determine, by the processor, whether to move the IP address to another node of the network.

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