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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2012
Applicants:
Nir Arad, Nesher, IL;
Carmi Arad, Nofit, IL;
David Melman, D.N. Bikat Beit Hakerem, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/33 (2013.01);
Abstract
A plurality of forwarding devices are configured to couple to respective pluralities of ports to ingress and egress network traffic. Ones of the plurality of forwarding devices are coupled to respective forwarding databases and each one forwarding device is configured to maintain the respective forwarding database, and send messages to and receive message from other ones of the plurality of forwarding devices to synchronize the plurality of forwarding databases.