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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Dante Malagrino, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Cupertino, CA (US);
Silvano Gai, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An IP packet reassembly engine provides high-speed and efficient reassembly of IP fragments received at an intermediate station in a computer network. The IP packet reassembly engine comprises a main controller logic circuit configured to “speed-up” re-assembly of original packets from IP fragments stored in a frame buffer at multi-gigabit per second rates. To that end, the reassembly engine further includes a content addressable memory having a plurality of entries for maintaining status information for each received fragment and for each original packet being reassembled from the fragments.