A method including selecting a prospective local port from a plurality of available local ports for a computing environment; determining a hash value based on the prospective local port, the hash value being further determined based on a hash value determination method of a network interface of the computing environment; determining whether the hash value results in incoming traffic being delivered to a selected one of a plurality of cores of the computing environment; and sending data relating to an application executed by the selected core over the network interface using the prospective local port, if the hash value results in incoming traffic being delivered to the selected core.