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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2008
Rupa Budhia, San Jose, CA (US);
Venkateshwar Buduma, San Jose, CA (US);
Puneet Agarwal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rupa Budhia, San Jose, CA (US);
Venkateshwar Buduma, San Jose, CA (US);
Puneet Agarwal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus may include a port interface that is arranged and configured to receive a packet from an ingress port, a traffic management module being operatively coupled to the port interface and that is arranged and configured to manage routing of the packet to a destination, and a packet processing engine that is arranged and configured to perform packet processing on the packet and to associate a tag with the packet, where the tag includes a packet processing source field, a destination field, and a fabric source field.