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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2009
Applicants:
Siddhartha Sen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yi Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hasnain Karampurwala, San Jose, CA (US);
Ram Dular Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Siddhartha Sen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yi Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hasnain Karampurwala, San Jose, CA (US);
Ram Dular Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/701 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/755 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/00 (2013.01); H04L 45/021 (2013.01); H04L 45/741 (2013.01); H04L 45/54 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for efficiently storing and using routing and associated next-hop information in a network device. The amount of next-hop information that is stored for routes in a routing table is reduced by reducing the amount of duplicate next-hop information that is stored by a network device.