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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2010
Christian Sasso, Milpitas, CA (US);
Siddharth Kasat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ankur Goyal, Fremont, CA (US);
Ronak Desai, Fremont, CA (US);
Hariharan Balasubramanian, Oak Park, CA (US);
Christian Sasso, Milpitas, CA (US);
Siddharth Kasat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ankur Goyal, Fremont, CA (US);
Ronak Desai, Fremont, CA (US);
Hariharan Balasubramanian, Oak Park, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to allocating a sub-area of Fiber Channel addresses (FCIDs) to a device. A range of addresses may be assigned to the device using a mask address, where the most significant bits represent a mask and the least significant bits represent a sub-range of FCIDs available to be assigned to the device. Therefore, routing information may be stored efficiently in a Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) by storing a single entry in the TCAM for each sub-area of FCIDs allocated to a device, instead of storing an entry for each FCID. The single entry may indicate the mask address and the width of the mask.