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Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2011
Applicants:

Arvind Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (US);

Marcelino M. Dignum, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Arvind Srinivasan, San Jose, CA (US);

Marcelino M. Dignum, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for classifying a multicast packet, involving receiving, at a classification engine, the multicast packet sent from a packet source; determining, based on a source address of the multicast packet, a Direct Memory Access (DMA) filter vector; determining, based on a destination address of the multicast packet, a DMA target vector, where the DMA target vector includes a listing of DMA channels which are available to transfer the multicast packet; determining a DMA final vector based on the DMA filter vector and the DMA target vector; and sending the multicast packet according to the DMA final vector.


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