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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
May. 24, 2010
Cheng Tien EE, Rockaway, NJ (US);
Lee M. Breslau, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Cheng Tien Ee, Rockaway, NJ (US);
Lee M. Breslau, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to route control packets based on address partitioning. A disclosed example method includes receiving a packet in a server, determining the packet is a control packet, forwarding the packet to a processor, identifying via the processor an address prefix of the packet, accessing a forwarding table and determining via the processor at least one of a router or an outgoing interface that corresponds to the identified address prefix, transmitting the packet from the processor to the server via the outgoing interface, and statically forwarding the packet from the server to the router based on an interface that received the packet from the processor.