CPC H04L 43/062 (2013.01) [H04L 41/142 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
16. A method operable with a plurality of applications connected through a programmable switch comprising:
selecting traffic flows to ones of said plurality of applications;
monitoring and collecting statistics for said traffic flows to determine rule level statistics;
moving, based on said rule level statistics, at least one traffic flow of said traffic flows from a network interface to a different network interface, the different network interface comprising a new NIC or a new virtual function; and
moving, to the new NIC or the new virtual function, rules for the traffic flows, such that rules for one type of traffic flow are not co-located with rules for another type of traffic flow.
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