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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2005
Pawan Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Sujatha Sundararaman, Milpitas, CA (US);
Raymond J. Kloth, Saratoga, CA (US);
Deepak Goel, Vignana Nagar, IN;
Nitin Garg, San Jose, CA (US);
Sachin Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Pawan Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Sujatha Sundararaman, Milpitas, CA (US);
Raymond J. Kloth, Saratoga, CA (US);
Deepak Goel, Vignana Nagar, IN;
Nitin Garg, San Jose, CA (US);
Sachin Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to improve the techniques and mechanisms for forwarding packets at a fiber channel switch. A combined area table/domain table (ATDT) is accessed using destination information associated with a fiber channel packet. Area/port or domain information can be used to address entries in the ATDT. Each entry provides one or more paths to a given destination. Traffic shaping, load balancing, and other policy based forwarding considerations can be applied.