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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2004
Uday R. Naik, Fremont, CA (US);
Alok Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eswar Eduri, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Donald F. Hooper, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Uday R. Naik, Fremont, CA (US);
Alok Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eswar Eduri, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Donald F. Hooper, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus to support a large Internet Protocol Forwarding Information Base. A packet is received at a network device, the packet including a destination address. A table is indexed into using a portion of the destination address to locate an entry in the table associated with the portion of the destination address. A pool index is derived from the portion of the destination address and is used to identify a pool of data blocks from among a plurality of pools of data blocks. The entry and the pool of data blocks are navigated to find a next-hop for the packet.