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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ken Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
Yoji Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A packet processing apparatus includes: a flow table in which flow entries can be stored in areas allocated in order of priority groups; an entry management unit that determines, upon receiving a new flow entry from a prescribed control apparatus, a storage position in the flow table based on which priority group among the plural priority groups the new flow entry belongs to, and on a level 2 priority that is used for determining position within the priority group; and an entry retrieval unit that scans from the beginning of the flow table, retrieves an entry having match condition(s) that match(es) a received packet, and determines processing to be applied to the received packet.