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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2003
Applicants:
Thomas A. Maufer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul J. Gyugyi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sameer Nanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul J. Sidenblad, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas A. Maufer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul J. Gyugyi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sameer Nanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul J. Sidenblad, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method and apparatus for network protocol filtering of a packet is described. An index to a table is obtained and stored to travel with the packet. The index is obtainable to access the table to obtain packet information. In particular, a method for inbound network address translation packet filtering and a method for outbound packet filtering are described.