Managing network packet communication simultaneously through wired and wireless network interfaces
A client information handling system application selectively communicates network packets simultaneously through plural network interfaces by leveraging network address translation at the network layer of the network packets. Network packets are distributed across the plural network interfaces to achieve desired network communication goals, such as bandwidth, data rates, quality of service, reliability and SAR requirements.
1. An information handling system having plural network interfaces, the information system comprising:
a processor operable to execute instructions to process information;
memory interfaced with the processor and operable to store the instructions and information;
plural network interfaces operable to communicate information with a network, the plural network interfaces including at least one wireless network interface that communicates with radio signals and at least one wired network interface;
a link optimization module that selects from the plural network interfaces to communicate network packets from an application executing on the processor simultaneously through plural of the network interfaces;
wherein the at least one wireless network interface tracks radio signals communicated in a predetermined time period to detect a threshold; and
wherein the link optimization module responds to the threshold by communicating all outbound network packets of the application through a wired network interface and all inbound network packets of the application through the wireless network interface.
2. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein:
the threshold varies based upon radio signal transmit strength of the wireless network interface.
3. The information handling system of claim 1 further comprising:
wherein the link optimization module applies plural factors to select from the plural network interfaces, the plural factors including at least the number of network packets sent by radio from the information handling system.
4. The information handling system of claim 3 wherein:
the link optimization module sends network packets from the application through plural network interfaces by translating the network packet Internet Protocol address at the network layer; and
the link optimization module selects the plural network interfaces in part based upon the number of wireless radio network packets sent by plural of the network interfaces.
5. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein the link optimization module monitors traffic of the plural network interfaces and adjusts application network packet distribution through the plural network interfaces to communicate wireless network packets through a wireless network interface having a number of packets of less than the threshold.
6. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plural network interfaces comprises a peer-to-peer network interface with a peer information handling system, the link optimization module assigning application network packets to the peer-to-peer network interface based upon the number of packets relative to the threshold.
7. The information handling system of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plural network interfaces comprises a mesh network interface with a mesh information handling system, the link optimization module assigning application network packets to the mesh network interface based at least in part upon the number of packets relative to the threshold.
8. A method for communication between a client information handling system and an external network, the method comprising:
establishing plural network interfaces between the client information handling system and external network, including at least a wired network interface and a wireless network interface;
executing an application on the client information handling system, the application generating information to communicate to the external network and receiving information from the external network;
communicating the application information as network packets through at least both the wired network interface and the wireless network interface;
tracking wireless transmissions sent by the plural network interfaces having wireless communication;
in response to the tracking reaching a threshold, adapting communication of the network packets to maintain the wireless transmissions below the threshold;
wherein the adapting communication includes at least communicating all outbound network packets of the application through the wired network interface and communicating all inbound network packets of the application through the wireless network interface.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein:
tracking wireless transmissions further comprises counting packets sent by the plural network interfaces that communicate wirelessly within a time window and comparing the counted packets to a threshold number of packets; and
adapting communication further comprises reducing transmit power of the wireless transmissions.
10. The method of claim 8 wherein:
tracking wireless transmissions further comprises tracking transmit time of network packets sent by the plural network interfaces that communicate wirelessly within a time window and comparing the transmit time to a threshold transmit time; and
adapting communication further comprises throttling the number of the network packets sent by the wireless transmissions.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein the wireless transmissions comprise wireless local area network transmissions.
12. The method of claim 8 wherein the wireless network interface comprises a mesh network interface.
13. The method of claim 8 wherein adapting communication of the network packets to maintain the wireless transmissions below the threshold further comprises modifying the wireless transmission Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS).