Systems and methods for steering data packets among a plurality of available network devices. A device connected to a wide area network through multiple network interfaces may dynamically select which network interface to use to transmit individual packets sent to, and received from, client devices over a local area network.

An apparatus and method comprising a memory containing a fault detection program and a processor operably connected to the memory and to a communication network. The communication network is connected to a plurality of processing devices through at least one communication port. The processor is configured to execute the fault detection program to send status requests on the communication network requesting the operational status of the communication port from each processing device and to receive the operational status of the communication port from each processing device. The fault detection program analyzes the received operational status of the communication ports to isolate faults in the communication network between two of the processing devices.

Systems and methods for steering data packets among a plurality of available network devices. A device connected to a wide area network through multiple network interfaces may dynamically select which network interface to use to transmit individual packets sent to, and received from, client devices over a local area network.