Cisco Technology, Inc.

Leo Chun-Chuen Chan

Sami Boutros

Reshad Rahman

Sivakumar Ganapathy

Vijayan Ramakrishnan

Sundar Siddaramaiah Bettadahalli

In one embodiment, line cards of packet switching or other network devices are configured for terminating pseudowires. Typically, this includes multiple line cards being configured for terminating a same pseudowire, which allows the corresponding pseudowire traffic to be received by any one of these multiple line cards. Each of these pseudowire-terminating line cards is typically configured to apply one or more features to a pseudowire packet. Examples of these features include, but are not limited to: Access Control List, Quality of Service, Netflow, and Lawful Intercept. For a received packet to be sent out one of these pseudowires, a two-stage lookup operation can be used to first identify the pseudowire over which to forward the packet; and a second lookup operation based on the pseudowire to identify forwarding information corresponding to a path through a network over which a corresponding pseudowire is configured.

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Leo Chun-Chuen Chan