Traffic distribution device, traffic distribution method and packet relay method

• US 7,535,902 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2005
• Issued: 05/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Takeshi, Takamura, Naohiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Sam; Phirin
• Application Number:
  US11/221,189
• Publication Number:
  US 20060221973A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,350 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/389
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/622 Layer-2 addresses, e.g. medium access control [MAC] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/103 across network layers, e.g. resolution of network layer into physical layer addresses or address resolution protocol [ARP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1023 based on a hash applied to IP addresses or costs

Abstract

Disclosed is a traffic distribution device, which is used in a way that connects to a 0-th network, a first network including one or more servers and to a second network connected to the first network and including M-pieces of high-order layer processing devices associated with 0 through M-1, capable of improving a throughput of a network without changing a server sided default gateway address. The traffic distribution device has first packet relay unit translating a packet containing a predetermined destination IP address from the 0-th network into a packet in which a destination MAC address is set as a first network sided MAC address of the high-order layer processing device, which MAC address is associated with a remainder value obtained by dividing a source IP address of the packet by M, and transmitting this packet onto the first network; and second packet relay unit translating the packet from the second network into a packet in which a destination MAC address is a second network sided MAC address of the high-order layer processing device, which MAC address is associated with a remainder value obtained by dividing the destination IP address of the packet by M, and transmitting this packet onto the second network.

Claims

1. A traffic distribution device used in a way that connects to a 0-th network, a first network including one or more servers and to a second network connected to said first network and including M-pieces of high-order layer processing devices associated with 0 through M-1, comprising:

first packet relay means translating, each time a packet in which a predetermined destination IP address is set, is received from said 0-th network, this packet into a packet in which a destination MAC address is set as a first network sided MAC address of said high-order layer processing device, which MAC address is associated with a remainder value obtained by dividing a source IP address of the packet by M, and transmitting this packet onto said first network; and

second packet relay means translating, each time the packet is received from said second network, this packet into a packet in which a destination MAC address is a second network sided MAC address of said high-order layer processing device, which MAC address is associated with a remainder value obtained by dividing the destination IP address of the packet by M, and transmitting this packet onto said second network.

2. A traffic distribution device according to claim 1, wherein said second network is a network including K-pieces of second type high-order layer processing devices each associated with several source IP addresses,

said first packet relay means is means for translating, if the source IP address of the packet in which the predetermined destination IP address received from said 0-th network is set is a source IP address associated with anyone of said K-pieces of second type high-order layer processing devices, the received packet into a packet in which the destination MAC address is a first network sided MAC address of said second type high-order layer processing device associated with the source IP address thereof, and transmitting this packet onto said first network, and

said second packet relay means is means for translating, if the destination IP address of the packet received from said 0-th network is coincident with a source IP address associated with any one of said K-pieces of second type high-order layer processing devices, the received packet into a packet in which the destination MAC address is a second network sided MAC address of said second type high-order layer processing device that is coincident with the source IP address thereof, and transmitting this packet onto said second network.

3. A traffic distribution device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said high-order layer processing device is a server load balancer.

4. A traffic distribution program, when executed by a computer connected to a 0-th network, to a first network including one or more servers and to a second network connected to said first network and including M-pieces of high-order layer processing devices associated with 0 through M-1, causing said computer to operate as a device comprising:

first packet relay means translating, each time a packet in which a predetermined destination IP address is set, is received from said 0-th network, this packet into a packet in which a destination MAC address is set as a first network sided MAC address of said high-order layer processing device, which MAC address is associated with a remainder value obtained by dividing a source IP address of the packet by M, and transmitting this packet onto said first network; and

second packet relay means translating, each time the packet is received from said second network, this packet into a packet in which a destination MAC address is a second network sided MAC address of said high-order layer processing device, which MAC address is associated with a remainder value obtained by dividing the destination IP address of the packet by M, and transmitting this packet onto said second network.

5. A packet relay method for relaying a packet between a 0-th network, a first network including one or more servers and a second network connected to said first network and including M-pieces of high-order layer processing devices associated with 0 through M-1, said method comprising:

translating, each time a packet in which a predetermined destination IP address is set, is received from said 0-th network, this packet into a packet in which a destination MAC address is set as a first network sided MAC address of said high-order layer processing device, which MAC address is associated with a remainder value obtained by dividing a source IP address of the packet by M, and transmitting this packet onto said first network; and

translating, each time the packet is received from said second network, this packet into a packet in which a destination MAC address is a second network sided MAC address of said high-order layer processing device, which MAC address is associated with a remainder value obtained by dividing the destination IP address of the packet by M, and transmitting this packet onto said second network.