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Method for upgrading firmware of network card, device, network card and apparatus

A network card fixation and network card technology, applied in the field of communication, can solve problems such as business link interruption and impact on business operation, and achieve the effect of maintaining uninterrupted business links, reducing impact, and reducing memory space

Active Publication Date: 2018-10-02
XFUSION DIGITAL TECH CO LTD
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[0004] Therefore, the current method of upgrading the firmware of the network card will cause the interruption of the service link and affect the operation of the service

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[0045] The technical solution in this application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0046] In order to facilitate the understanding of the embodiment of the present application, the following first combines figure 1 Describe the typical networking architecture of the NIC firmware upgrade scenario.

[0047] Such as figure 1 As shown, the first device includes a processor and a network card. The first device performs network communication with the second device through the network card. The second device may be a remote network node. The network card is connected to the processor of the first device through a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard (peripheral component interconnect express, PCIe) bus. The network card is connected to the second device through Ethernet (ethernet, ETH) / fibre channel (fibre channel, FC). It should be understood that there is also a corresponding network card ( figure 1 not shown).

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The present invention provides a method for upgrading the firmware of a network card, a device for upgrading the firmware of a network card, a network card and an apparatus. The method includes the following steps that: a network card receives the new firmware of the network card from an apparatus where the network card is located; the site information of a service currently processed by the network card is saved, wherein the site information of the service is used to indicate information related to the service currently processed by the network card; the network card loads the new firmware into the memory area of the network card, and operates the new firmware in the memory area; and initial configuration is performed on all modules except a service logic module in the network card, and the service indicated by the site information is restored. According o the method of the invention, the network card does not need to be restarted when the firmware of the network card is updated, andtherefore, the upgrade of the firmware of the network card can be completed with a service link uninterrupted, and the influence of the upgrade of the firmware of the network card on service application can be decreased.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates to the communication field, and more specifically, to a method, device, network card and equipment for upgrading network card firmware. Background technique [0002] With the rapid development of network technology, different network protocols can be used to transmit data between different devices. Correspondingly, there are more and more types of network cards in devices. In addition to traditional Ethernet cards, smart network cards have also appeared. Different devices equipped with smart network cards can use high-speed network transmission protocols to transmit packets to improve network transmission rates. At the same time, due to the increasing complexity of the internal software and hardware of the network card, there are more and more software defects (Bugs) and hardware failures of the network card. Only when the fault is repaired in time can the impact on services running on the device be reduced. Therefore,...

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IPC IPC(8): H04L12/24
CPCH04L41/0806H04L41/082
Inventor 谢军宏徐启明
Owner XFUSION DIGITAL TECH CO LTD
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