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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2004
Ray Kloth, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Mountain View, CA (US);
Luca Cafiero, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ray Kloth, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Mountain View, CA (US);
Luca Cafiero, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a first packet is forwarded based on a network layer routing decision rendered by a router. A shortcut entry is generated based on a first header of the first packet. The shortcut entry is stored. In response to the shortcut entry, and absent a network layer routing decision rendered by a router, subsequent packets having a subsequent header are forwarded if the subsequent header has at least one field which matches a field of the first header. Such technique may be implemented by a switch coupled to the router.