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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2020
Marvell Israel (M.i.s.l) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Yuval Peled, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Doron Schupper, Rehovot, IL;
Ilan Yerushalmi, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Rami Zemach, Givat Shapira, IL;
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
At least a packet header of a packet received by a network device is provided to a programmable header alteration engine that includes a hardware input processor implemented in hardware and a programmable header alteration processor configured to execute computer readable instructions stored in a program memory. The hardware input processor determines whether the packet header is to be provided to a processing path coupled to the programmable header alteration processor or to be diverted to a bypass path that bypasses the programmable header alteration processor, and the packet header is provided to the processing path or to the bypass path based on the determination. The packet header is selectively i) processed by the programmable header alteration processor when the packet header is provided to the processing path and ii) not processed by the programmable header alteration processor when the packet header is provided to the bypass path.