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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Real Valiquette, St-Bruno, CA;
Carl Geoffrion, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, CA;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
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.