摘要:
A packet transfer apparatus having: a flow detector 30 for identifying a flow to which an input packet belongs from header information of the input packet and outputting a flow bundle identifier peculiar to the identified flow or a flow bundle identifier common to the identified flow and at least another flow; and a controller 40 having an information table 43 including a plurality of information entries corresponding to the flow bundle identifier, for reading out one of the information entries from the information table on the basis the flow bundle identifier received from the flow detector performing a predetermined computing process.
摘要:
A flow classifier having a flow CAM having plural flow entries, a search key generator for generating a search key of a format which differs by a flow condition, and a table holding a flow search result corresponding to an address of respective flow entry of CAM, in which access is made to CAM by the search key of a variable format including at least one header information item extracted from a packet header and the flow search result is obtained from the table in accordance with the address of the flow entry coinciding with the search key outputted from CAM to thereby constitute high speed formation of flow classifying by a variety of flow conditions.
摘要:
A packet transfer apparatus having: a flow detector 30 for identifying a flow to which an input packet belongs from header information of the input packet and outputting a flow bundle identifier peculiar to the identified flow or a flow bundle identifier common to the identified flow and at least another flow; and a controller 40 having an information table 43 including a plurality of information entries corresponding to the flow bundle identifier, for reading out one of the information entries from the information table on the basis of the flow bundle identifier received from the flow detector and performing a predetermined computing process.
摘要:
A policing device having a table storing monitored bandwidth, packet history information for each importance level, and the allocation weight of the monitored bandwidth for each importance level, a policing table control circuit for reading out these items of information into each storage of a policing unit when a packet is inputted, and a calculation unit for judging the bandwidth of the input packet as being conformant or non-conformant to the contract on the basis of these items of information, thereby to control the bandwidth at each importance level.
摘要:
In a bandwidth policing apparatus which accommodates a large number of user groups, bandwidth policing for each user group is performed at high speed. When there is any extra bandwidth in bandwidth for a user group, the contracted committed information rate for each user is guaranteed invariably while using this effectively. The bandwidth policing apparatus accumulates packets of a plurality of user groups under bandwidth policing in the same packet accumulate FIFO. Also, for a packet which does not exceed the contracted bandwidth for each user, the contracted bandwidth for each user is guaranteed by deciding that the packet does not exceed the contracted bandwidth for each user group.
摘要:
A policing device having a table storing monitored bandwidth, packet history information for each importance level, and the allocation weight of the monitored bandwidth for each importance level, a policing table control circuit for reading out these items of information into each storage of a policing unit when a packet is inputted, and a calculation unit for judging the bandwidth of the input packet as being conformant or non-conformant to the contract on the basis of these items of information, thereby to control the bandwidth at each importance level.
摘要:
In a bandwidth policing apparatus which accommodates a large number of user groups, bandwidth policing for each user group is performed at high speed. When there is any extra bandwidth in bandwidth for a user group, the contracted committed information rate for each user is guaranteed invariably while using this effectively. The bandwidth policing apparatus accumulates packets of a plurality of user groups under bandwidth policing in the same packet accumulate FIFO. Also, for a packet which does not exceed the contracted bandwidth for each user, the contracted bandwidth for each user is guaranteed by deciding that the packet does not exceed the contracted bandwidth for each user group.
摘要:
When a delay between a packet relay device and a receiving terminal increases, congestion notifications are delayed, and communication quality declines. When a flow is assessed to be in a congestion state, a packet delay device overwrites, within a packet header of an acknowledgement packet for the flow which is received thereafter from a receiving terminal, a field which denotes a network congestion state with a value which denotes that a congestion state is in effect, and transmits same as an acknowledgement packet. It is thus possible to issue a congestion notification over a path from the packet relay device to the receiving terminal, eliminating a congestion notification path from the packet relay device to the receiving terminal and from the receiving terminal to the packet relay device, facilitating avoiding a decline in communication quality even if the delay between the packet relay device and the receiving terminal increases.
摘要:
A policing device having a table storing monitored bandwidth, packet history information for each importance level, and the allocation weight of the monitored bandwidth for each importance level, a policing table control circuit for reading out these items of information into each storage of a policing unit when a packet is inputted, and a calculation unit for judging the bandwidth of the input packet as being conformant or non-conformant to the contract on the basis of these items of information, thereby to control the bandwidth at each importance level.
摘要:
A packet forwarding apparatus which quickly selects a plurality of control information entries to be applied according to header information of an input packet and concurrently performs various the header processing functions. The packet forwarding apparatus comprises a flow retrieval unit which compares header information of the input packet with plural sets of flow identification conditions and concurrently outputs various flow identifiers appropriate to the input packet, various header processing units corresponding to the flow identifiers, and a packet forwarding control unit for controlling forwarding of input packets according to control information outputted from at least one of the header processing units. While each of the header processing units has an information table containing plural information entries, reads a single information entry from the information table according to the flow identifier outputted from the flow retrieval unit, and executes a prescribed arithmetic operation.