Broadcom Corporation

Morris Beatty

Chien-Hsien Wu

Michael Lau

Maya Suresh

Robert (Yi) Li

Disclosed are various embodiments that provide serial replication of multicast packets by performing a first data fetch to fetch first data from a memory buffer, the first data comprising a first packet pointer representing a first packet and a replication number indication a number of times the first packet is to be replicated. Furthermore, various embodiments are directed to performing a second data fetch to fetch second data from a memory buffer, the second data comprising a first packet pointer representing a second packet and serially replicating the first packet and the second packet based at least in part upon the replication number and a predetermined threshold value.

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Morris Beatty