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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2009
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Pradosh Mohapatra, Fremont, CA (US);
Dheerendra Talur, San Ramon, CA (US);
John H. W. Bettink, San Jose, CA (US);
Pranav Dharwadkar, San Jose, CA (US);
David Delano Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Pradosh Mohapatra, Fremont, CA (US);
Dheerendra Talur, San Ramon, CA (US);
John H. W. Bettink, San Jose, CA (US);
Pranav Dharwadkar, San Jose, CA (US);
David Delano Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with subsets of the Forward Information Base (FIB) distributed among line cards in a switching device; especially wherein one or more of the line cards does not contain the complete FIB, and this line card forwards packets, for which it does not have the forwarding information, to another line card which has the forwarding information for the packet.