Invention Grant
US07826369B2 Subsets of the forward information base (FIB) distributed among line cards in a switching device
有权
在交换设备中的线路卡之间分配的前向信息库(FIB)的子集
- Patent Title: Subsets of the forward information base (FIB) distributed among line cards in a switching device
- Patent Title (中): 在交换设备中的线路卡之间分配的前向信息库(FIB)的子集
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Application No.: US12390391Application Date: 2009-02-20
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Publication No.: US07826369B2Publication Date: 2010-11-02
- Inventor: Clarence Filsfils , Pradosh Mohapatra , Dheerendra Talur , John H. W. Bettink , Pranav Dharwadkar , David Delano Ward
- Applicant: Clarence Filsfils , Pradosh Mohapatra , Dheerendra Talur , John H. W. Bettink , Pranav Dharwadkar , David Delano Ward
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: The Law Office of Kirk D. Williams
- Main IPC: G01R31/08
- IPC: G01R31/08 ; H04L12/50 ; H04L12/28

Abstract:
Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with subsets of the Forward Information Base (FIB) distributed among line cards in a switching device; especially wherein one or more of the line cards does not contain the complete FIB, and this line card forwards packets, for which it does not have the forwarding information, to another line card which has the forwarding information for the packet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100215047A1 SUBSETS OF THE FORWARD INFORMATION BASE (FIB) DISTRIBUTED AMONG LINE CARDS IN A SWITCHING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2010-08-26
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