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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
May. 30, 2007
Mark Albert, Cary, NC (US);
Chris O'rourke, Apex, NC (US);
Richard L. Gray, Cary, NC (US);
Walter G. Dixon, Fuquay Varina, NC (US);
Tzu-ming Tsang, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Wai-tak Siu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mark Albert, Cary, NC (US);
Chris O'Rourke, Apex, NC (US);
Richard L. Gray, Cary, NC (US);
Walter G. Dixon, Fuquay Varina, NC (US);
Tzu-Ming Tsang, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Wai-tak Siu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Resolving a Layer 3 address includes maintaining an address resolution table at each slave processor of a number of slave processors. The slave processors have a master processor, and the master processor and the slave processors are associated with a unified address. An address resolution table includes one or more Layer 2-Layer 3 address mappings. An address resolution request requesting a Layer 2 address corresponding to a Layer 3 address is sent from a slave processor. The address resolution request uses the unified address. An address resolution response comprising the Layer 2 address is received at the master processor. The master processor sends the response to the slaves.