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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
May. 09, 2008
Everett Arthur Corl, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Brahmanand Kumar Gorti, Cary, NC (US);
Colin Beaton Verrilli, Apex, NC (US);
Everett Arthur Corl, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Brahmanand Kumar Gorti, Cary, NC (US);
Colin Beaton Verrilli, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A wire-speed forwarding platform and method for supporting multifield classification of a packet fragmented into a plurality of fragments in the wire-speed forwarding platform, comprising: receiving a fragment of the fragmented packet at the forwarding platform and deriving a key from one or more fields of the received fragment; and performing multifield classification of the received fragment by matching the key to a rule out of a plurality of rules, the rule comprising a plurality of fields including at least one field for specifying whether the received fragment's fragmentation characteristics are to be applied when performing the multifield classification.