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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2012
Rajesh Amaresh Rajah, Morrisville, NC (US);
Amit Surendra Singh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Khalil A. Jabr, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Nick Satsia, Yarralumla, AU;
Rajesh Amaresh Rajah, Morrisville, NC (US);
Amit Surendra Singh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Khalil A. Jabr, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Nick Satsia, Yarralumla, AU;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an apparatus comprising an ingress interface, an egress interface, and a storm controller coupled to the ingress interface and the egress interface. The storm controller is operable to determine whether to forward packets for a traffic flow received at the ingress interface to the egress interface based on a rate over a time period. The storm controller forwards packets for the traffic flow while the rate exceeds a first threshold and is less than a second threshold while a predefined condition exits. The storm controller limits traffic for the traffic flow to the first threshold while the rate exceeds the first threshold and the predefined condition does not exist.