An apparatus and method for dynamic sharing of server network interface
resources are provided. With the apparatus and method, when a master
application server detects a heavy load condition on one or more network
interfaces associated with the server computing device, the master
application server spawns additional slave application subservers. The
network interfaces are distributed across the slave application
subservers and are bound to the network interfaces to which they are
associated. The master application server continues to listen for traffic
on a standard port of all network interfaces. When a new communication
connection request is received via a port associated with a network
interface, the slave application subserver associated with the network
interface will first process the new communication connection request
without having to have the master application server route the data
packet to the slave application subserver.