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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2008
Applicant:
Tushara Kanta Swain, Bhubaneswar, IN;
Inventor:
Tushara Kanta Swain, Bhubaneswar, IN;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Flooding in an Ethernet bridge can be minimized by employing various techniques. In one embodiment using an address table containing a plurality of entries, each of said plurality of entries specifying one of said plurality of ports on which packets containing a corresponding destination address are to be forwarded. A priority field associated with a high priority first entry is maintained. A new entry creation situation is determined and a replacement approach which is less likely to replace said first entry than another entry which does not have associated high priority field is utilized.