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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2015
Applicants:
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/755 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/021 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for inserting an OpenFlow flow entry into a flow table is disclosed. In the embodiment, the method involves receiving a flow mod message at an OpenFlow-enabled switch, the flow mod message including a cookie field, decoding an OpenFlow flow entry from the flow mod message, identifying a flow table from the cookie field, and inserting the decoded flow entry into the flow table.