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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2016
Applicant:
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kashyap Tavarekere Ananthapadmanabha, San Jose, CA (US);
Vivek Agarwal, Campbell, CA (US);
Eswara S. P. Chinthalapati, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED, Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/743 (2013.01); H04L 12/701 (2013.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/935 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/7457 (2013.01); H04L 45/00 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/7453 (2013.01); H04L 47/2441 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01); H04L 49/3009 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system facilitates flow definition management in a switch. During operation, the system identifies a generic flow definition which specifies a flow that is not specific to any input port of a switch. The system further stores in a flow lookup data structure one or more port-specific flow rules based on the generic flow definition, wherein each port-specific flow rule corresponds to a respective port capable of processing data flows.