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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2008
John David Irish, Rochester, MN (US);
Ibrahim Abdel-rahman Ouda, Rochester, MN (US);
James A. Steenburgh, Rochester, MN (US);
Jason Andrew Thompson, Rochester, MN (US);
John David Irish, Rochester, MN (US);
Ibrahim Abdel-Rahman Ouda, Rochester, MN (US);
James A. Steenburgh, Rochester, MN (US);
Jason Andrew Thompson, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing frame alteration commands in a communications network processor. A set of frame alteration instruction templates is defined. A frame alteration instruction template is identified based upon the packet type recognition result of a received packet. A frame alteration instruction stream is generated utilizing the frame alteration instruction template. Each of the frame alteration instruction templates includes different frame alteration commands to be performed on a packet. Pointers to indirect data bytes to be inserted in a packet are stored in the frame alteration instruction templates. The generated frame alteration instruction stream is used by hardware to provide frame alterations.