公开(公告)号：US20170331672A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-16

申请号：US15152306

申请日：2016-05-11

Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP

Inventor： Donald Fedyk ,  Paul Allen Bottorff

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/741

CPC classification number: H04L41/046 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L41/5041 ,  H04L45/745

Abstract: In accordance with examples disclosed herein, a filter table for Media Access Control (MAC) chaining contains mappings between signature addresses, service functions, and management functions, to identify corresponding service function chains. The filter table is to store statistic information about the packet. A controller is to uniquely identify a management function corresponding to the signature address, and modify tables of packet signature addresses usable to modify the packet to cause the packet to be forwarded to the management function. The controller is to update the statistic information about the packet.