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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2011
Cahya Masputra, San Jose, CA (US);
Dieter Siegmund, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Vincent Lubet, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cahya Masputra, San Jose, CA (US);
Dieter Siegmund, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Vincent Lubet, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described that involves associating an outbound packet with a first network interface and constructing a search key from an identifier of the first network interface and the outbound packet's destination address. The method further entails submitting the search key to a routing function where the routing function identifies the outbound packet's next hop address. The method also involves transmitting the outbound packet to a node identified by the next hop address from the first network interface.