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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2004
Johan Marie Camiel Moreels, Roosdaal-Strijtem, BE;
Nico Alfred Anna Janssens, Overmere, BE;
Johan Marie Camiel Moreels, Roosdaal-Strijtem, BE;
Nico Alfred Anna Janssens, Overmere, BE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
An extractor extracts from the payload of the Layer 2 packet a destination Layer 3 address of the Layer 3 packet. A forwarding engine, for in response to the extraction, with the destination Layer 3 address retrieves from a forwarding database an associated interface. The forwarding database includes at least one association between one of the plurality of interfaces and at least one Layer 3 address. Upon reception of the destination Layer 3 address having a full match with one of the Layer 3 addresses, the forwarding database provides the interface which is associated to the Layer 3 address. The network unit forwards the Layer 2 packet to the provided associated interface.