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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2005
Sunay Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Radia J. Perlman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Cahya Adiansyah Masputra, Millbrae, CA (US);
Sunay Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Radia J. Perlman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Cahya Adiansyah Masputra, Millbrae, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
An edge device including a first list and a second list, a first queue and a second queue configured to receive packets, wherein packet information for each of the packets forwarded to the first queue is on a first list and packet information for each of the packets forwarded to the second queue is not on the first list. The edge device is configured to, for each of the packets stored in the second queue, send a message to a host to send a first test to a source of the packet, wherein the host is operatively connected to the edge device, obtain a response to the first test from the host, place the packet information on the first list, if a successful response to the first test is received, and place the packet information on a second list, if an unsuccessful response to the first test is received.