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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2004
Applicant:
Eitan Medina, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Inventor:
Eitan Medina, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Assignee:
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L.) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An Ethernet switch for preventing head of line blocking by passing an Ethernet packet carrying congestion status information among Ethernet switches over the Ethernet. When a port of an Ethernet switch is congested, the switch informs other Ethernet switches by broadcasting to other switches over the Ethernet an Ethernet packet indicating that the port is congested. If another Ethernet switch finds that one of its traffic classes is destined to the congested port, this switch drops packets of that traffic flow until receiving an Ethernet packet indicating that the congestion is alleviated.