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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2021
Applicant:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
ARISTA NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/12 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for operating a network device for increasing the logical multi-path size of a hardware forwarding table are provided. In some embodiments, the network device may determine that a number of data points in a first node is greater than a maximum node capacity; generate second nodes; update the first node to refer to the second nodes; distribute the data points among the second nodes; and program a hardware table with the updated first node and the second nodes.