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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2002
Rahul Aggarwal, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pedro Miguel Martins Roque Marques, San Jose, CA (US);
Rahul Aggarwal, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pedro Miguel Martins Roque Marques, San Jose, CA (US);
Redback Networks Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for a label forwarding information base is described. A machine-readable medium provides instructions, which when executed by a set of one or more processors, cause said set of processors to perform operations that comprise selecting forwarding information for a label of a packet with a set of most significant bits (MSBs) of the label and a set of least significant bits (LSBs) of the label, but not all of the label's bits unless the set of MSBs and the set of LSBs match a second label's MSBs and LSBs, and forwarding the packet with the forwarding information.