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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
Vijay Rangarajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
John Bettink, San Jose, CA (US);
Vijay Rangarajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
John Bettink, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, performed in a network packet routing element, comprises establishing a forwarding information base (FIB) lacking a hierarchical data structure but in which one or more dependent FIB entries are associated with a parent FIB entry; establishing a plurality of strict priority queues, each having an associated priority; receiving a change to the parent FIB entry; for each of the dependent FIB entries, selecting one of the queues and enqueuing the dependent FIB entries in the selected queues for re-resolution; dequeuing the dependent FIB entries for re-resolution, according to a priority order of the queues.