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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Stmicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
Glendon Leo Akins, III, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Gale L. Shallow, Johns Creek, GA (US);
Charaf Hanna, Lewisville, TX (US);
Andrew Graham Whitlow, Lewisville, TX (US);
Zhifang Ni, Plano, TX (US);
Benjamin Nelson Darby, Huntsville, AL (US);
Maynard Darvel Hammond, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
STMICROELECTRONICS, INC., Coppell, TX (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example and includes receiving a plurality of packets; identifying whether a particular packet, of the plurality of packets, is part of a sequenced flow; identifying whether a particular sequence number of the particular packet is being received within a time window; identifying whether the particular packet was a next expected packet for a particular flow; and forwarding the particular packet to a next destination. In more particular embodiments, packet inspection is used to set one or more flags for identifying characteristics associated with the plurality of packets. Certain packets in non-sequenced flows are routed directly from an input interface to an output interface of a resequencer module using a flow-through packet path.