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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1996
Nigel T Poole, Natick, MA (US);
Barry A Spinney, Wayland, MA (US);
Cabletron Systems, Inc., Rochester, NH (US);
Abstract
A translation is performed by using a programmable hashing technique on an input number to generate a hashed number. A subset of the hashed number bits are used to index a first hash table. In first hash table locations where a hash collision does not occur, the first hash table entry contains an index into an output table which contains the desired translated output number. In first hash table locations where a hash collision occurs, the first hash table entry contains a pointer to a first resolution table area in a second hash table. The first resolution table area contains entries which are indexed by additional bits selected from the hashed number in accordance with a mask field in the first hash table location. If collisions occur in the resolution table a new resolution table is created and the process is repeated. The resolution process thus proceeds in stages until all input numbers have been translated.