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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2010
Praveen Yalagandula, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jayaram Mudigonda, San Francisco, CA (US);
Naveenam Padmanabha Lakshminarasimhan, Karnataka, IN;
Reddy Sreedhar, Karnataka, IN;
Praveen Yalagandula, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jayaram Mudigonda, San Francisco, CA (US);
Naveenam Padmanabha Lakshminarasimhan, Karnataka, IN;
Reddy Sreedhar, Karnataka, IN;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Managing a forwarding table in a switch of a computer network includes determining an entry in the forwarding table in a data plane in the switch to replace with a new entry to minimize a future flooding caused by a forwarding table miss of the forwarding table. The managing also includes storing a forwarding information base in the control plane, and the forwarding information base includes entries from the forwarding table.