US Patent 9819515 Integrated fabric adapter and associated methods thereof

Methods and systems for network communication are provided. A method includes maintaining a first segment of a routing data structure at a first switching module of a network adapter for routing a frame between virtual machines executed by a computing device operationally coupled to the network adapter; maintaining a second segment of the routing data structure at a second switching module for routing a frame received at a port of the network adapter to an external destination; receiving a frame from the computing device and using the first segment by the first switching module to route the frame to a destination virtual machine; and receiving a frame at a port of the network adapter and using the second segment of the routing structure by the second switching module to the route the frame to its destination without providing the frame to the computing device.