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WAKE ON LOCAL AREA NETWORK SIGNALLING IN A MULTI-ROOT I/O VIRTUALIZATION

  • US 20110138044A1
  • Filed: 12/03/2009
  • Published: 06/09/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • a shared I/O device receiving a wake up packet over a local area network, wherein the wake up packet contains a media access control address for one of a plurality of physical hosts that share the shared I/O device; and

    the shared I/O device sending an out of band wake up signal to each of the physical host computers (root nodes) sharing the I/O device, wherein the wake up signal is a serial bit stream encoded with the media access control address so that only the physical host having a media access control address matching the media access control address in the wake up signal will be turned on.

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