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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2004
Kevin Cameron, San Jose, CA (US);
Gurumurthy V. S. Yeleswarapu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mohan Kalkunte, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Srinivas Sampath, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brian Baird, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Kevin Cameron, San Jose, CA (US);
Gurumurthy V. S. Yeleswarapu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mohan Kalkunte, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Srinivas Sampath, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brian Baird, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of adjusting fields of a datagram in the handling of the datagram in a network device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a datagram, with the datagram having at least module identifier fields and port identifier fields, at a port of a network device, determining whether the received datagram is a unicast datagram, adjusting the module and port identifier fields of the datagram based on data registers in the network device when the received datagram is a unicast datagram and forwarding the datagram based on the module and port identifier fields of the datagram. The port of the network device is connected to a legacy device, where the legacy device has a reduced handling capacity when compared to the network device.