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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
May. 14, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 49/35 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method and device for use by a routing switch device. In response to a determination to switch the routing switch device to switch from a conventional mode to an OpenFlow mode the following operations are performed. Table items of a forwarding table in the conventional mode are converted to flow table items in the OpenFlow mode. The converted flow table items are stored in a flow table of the routing switch device. Processing a received data packet based, at least in part, on the converted flow table items stored in the flow table.