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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2004
Applicant:
Christophe Joly, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Christophe Joly, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 3/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A network device architecture and method for centralized packet processing is disclosed. The network device architecture's operation includes receiving a packet from a lower-layer network device at an upper-layer network device and performing packet processing on the packet. The packet processing includes lower-layer protocol processing and upper-layer protocol processing. The packet is received irrespective of a destination of the packet.