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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2003
Applicants:
Andreas Herkersdorf, Inning am Ammersee, DE;
Jan Van Lunteren, Adliswil, CH;
Inventors:
Andreas Herkersdorf, Inning am Ammersee, DE;
Jan Van Lunteren, Adliswil, CH;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention is directed to methods, apparatus and systems for processing a data packet that has a destination address. In the event that in a routing table cache and in a routing table, there is no entry with a destination address prefix that is a prefix of the destination address, a default-route-prefix is determined in a default-route determination step.