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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaochu Chen, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ivy Pei-Shan Hsu, Dublin, CA (US);
Eswara Chinthalapati, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjeev Chhabria, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Using a hash function, an L/Lswitch can produce an FID for a data packet. The L/Lswitch can select, from among potentially several stored VLAN flooding tables, a particular VLAN flooding table that is associated with a particular VLAN on which the data packet is to be carried. The rows of the particular VLAN flooding table can specify different combinations of the particular VLAN's egress ports. The L/Lswitch can locate, in the particular VLAN flooding table, a particular row that specifies the FID. The L/Lswitch can read, from the particular row, a specified subset of the egress ports that are associated with the particular VLAN. The L/Lswitch can transmit copies of the data packet out each of the egress ports specified in the subset, toward analytic servers connected to those egress ports.