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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2011
Applicants:
Alexander Kugel, Netanya, IL;
Igor Shifrin, Petach-Tikva, IL;
Inventors:
Alexander Kugel, Netanya, IL;
Igor Shifrin, Petach-Tikva, IL;
Assignee:
ECI Telecom Ltd., Petach Tikva, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique for performing a flushing process at a port of a network switch, where the flushing process comprises a flooding operation and an operation of relearning MAC addresses. In the method, these two operations are made independent, and the operation of relearning MAC addresses is started before termination of the flooding operation. An operation of forwarding packets to the relearned MAC addresses can be started before termination of the flooding operation.