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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2004
Eric A. Baden, Saratoga, CA (US);
Mohan Kalkunte, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John J. Dull, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkateshwar Buduma, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric A. Baden, Saratoga, CA (US);
Mohan Kalkunte, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John J. Dull, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkateshwar Buduma, San Jose, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of handling a datagram in a network device is disclosed. The steps include receiving a datagram, with the datagram having multiple field values, at a port of a network device, parsing the received datagram to obtain the field values, applying the parsed field values to a Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM), determining matches between the parsed field values and predetermined criteria in the TCAM, indexing into a policy table based on the determined matches to obtain an action entry and taking an action based on the obtained action entry.