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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bhalachandra G. Banavalikar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Keshav G. Kamble, Fremont, CA (US);
Abhijit P. Kumbhare, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system includes a hardware processor and logic implemented with and/or executable by the processor to determine that expiration of a timer has occurred, and in response to expiration of the timer, import entries from a media access control (MAC) address table stored by a switch controller into a MAC address table stored by a switch until the MAC address table stored by the switch is full, where the logic to import entries includes logic to import entries in the MAC address table stored by the switch controller determined to be more often used into the MAC address table stored by the switch before entries determined to be less often used.