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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2002
Johnson Yen, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Veng-chong Lau, San Jose, CA (US);
Johnson Yen, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Veng-Chong Lau, San Jose, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A process of generating an inter-packet gap in a network device is disclosed. First, it is determined whether a next packet is available to forward from a packet buffer. The number of tokens contained in a token bucket is checked and bytes are added to the inter-packet gap and tokens are added to the token bucket, when the number of tokens contained in a token bucket is less than a predetermined number of tokens. Otherwise, the size of the inter-packet gap is reduced and tokens are taken out of the token bucket, when the number of tokens contained in a token bucket is greater than or equal to the predetermined number of tokens. Thereafter, the inter-packet gap is supplied and sent with the next packet over an interface between the network device and a network.