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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2009
Sachin Desai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tim Millet, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zahid Hussain, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Kim, Fremont, CA (US);
Louise Yeung, San Jose, CA (US);
Ken Yeung, San Jose, CA (US);
Sachin Desai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tim Millet, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zahid Hussain, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Kim, Fremont, CA (US);
Louise Yeung, San Jose, CA (US);
Ken Yeung, San Jose, CA (US);
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for steering network packets. According to one embodiment a method is provided for steering incoming network packets. Each network packet processing resource of a network routing/switching device is dynamically assigned to one or more network interfaces of the network routing/switching device. Each of the network packet processing resources includes one or more processing elements and a memory. Incoming network packets received by the network interfaces are steered to an appropriate network packet processing resource based on the dynamic assignment.