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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2005
Bruce E. Lavigne, Roseville, CA (US);
John A. Wickeraad, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Lewis S. Kootstra, Roseville, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Watts, Folsom, CA (US);
Bruce E. Lavigne, Roseville, CA (US);
John A. Wickeraad, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Lewis S. Kootstra, Roseville, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Watts, Folsom, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Network devices and methods are provided involving a support chip in association with network chips. One embodiment includes a network device having a processor, a high speed interconnect, and a number of network chips coupled to one another through the high speed interconnect. The number of network chips include a conduit port which can be selectively chosen to exchange packets, received to the number of network chips, with the processor. The support chip is coupled to the number of network chips in association with selecting a conduit port on one of the number of network chips to exchange packets with the processor.