Broadcom Corporation

Prashanth Narayanaswamy

Mark Birman

Cristian Estan

Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium embodiments for configuring a lookup table, such as an access control list (ACL) for a network device are disclosed. Aspects of these embodiments include storing a plurality of data entries in a memory, each of the stored plurality of data entries including a header part and a body part, and encoding each of a plurality of bit-sequences in the header part of a stored data entry from the plurality of data entries to indicate a bit comparing action associated with a respective bit sequence in the body part of the stored data entry. Other embodiments include searching a lookup table in a network device.

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Prashanth Narayanaswamy