processing system 100 is the internet with network 102 representing a worldwide collection of networks and gateways that use the tcp ip suite of protocols to communicate with one another at the heart of the internet is a backbone of high speed data communication lines between major nodes or host computers consisting of thousands of commercial government educational and other computer systems that route data and messages of course network data processing system 100 also may be implemented as a number of different types of networks such as for example an intranet a local area network lan or a wide area network wan fig1 is intended as an example and not as an architectural limitation for the present invention referring to fig2 a block diagram of a data processing system that may be implemented as a server such as server 104 in fig1 is depicted in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention data processing system 200 may be a symmetric multiprocessor smp system including a plurality of processors 202 and 204 connected to system bus 206 alternatively a single processor system may be employed also connected to system bus 206 is memory controller cache 208 which provides an interface to local memory 209 i o bus bridge 210 is connected to system bus 206 and provides an interface to i o.