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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2004
Dennis C. Ferguson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajiv Patel, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gerald Cheung, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pradeep S. Sindhu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Dennis C. Ferguson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajiv Patel, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gerald Cheung, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pradeep S. Sindhu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes an input device configured to receive a packet having a header and a packet processing device. The packet processing device is configured to examine the header, identify at least one function from a group of functions based on at least a portion of the header, where the group of functions includes an index table lookup function, a filtering function, and a longest best match lookup function, perform the identified at least one function for the packet to obtain a result, and forward the packet using the result.