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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2007
Davide Bergamasco, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dinesh Dutt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Davide Bergamasco, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dinesh Dutt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a network interface system having at least one input port configured for receiving frames and a logic system comprising at least one logic device. The logic system may be configured to perform the following functions: determining a source address and a destination address of a frame received at an ingress port; calculating a flow hash based at least upon the source address and the destination address; forming a congestion management ('CM') tag that includes the flow hash; inserting the CM tag in the frame; and forwarding the frame to the destination address.