Intel Corporation

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Carl Geoffrion

Grzegorz Jereczek

Andre Sylvain

Technologies for updating an access control list (ACL) table while minimizing disruption includes a network device. The network device receives a request to store a rule in the ACL. The rule is associated with a precedence group. A precedence group is indicative of a placement priority of a given rule in the ACL. The network device determines, as a function of the precedence group, a placement for the requested rule in the ACL. The network device stores the rule according to the determined placement in the ACL.

Technologies for updating an access control list table without causing disruption

There is disclosed in one example a network switching apparatus, including: a plurality ingress port; a plurality of egress ports; a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) comprising a plurality of chunks, wherein the chunks can be atomically enabled or disabled; a switching circuit to switch traffic from the ingress port to a selected egress port according to an access control list (ACL) of the TCAM; and one or more non-transitory mediums having stored thereon instructions to atomically add or update two or more target rules, including: add the two or more target rules to one or more target-rule chunks; and atomically enable the target-rule chunks.

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