Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fast hardware switchover in a control path in a network ASIC
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Application No.: US15642141Application Date: 2017-07-05
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Publication No.: US10341130B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Gerald Schmidt , Harish Krishnamoorthy , Tsahi Daniel
- Applicant: Cavium, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Cavium, LLC
- Current Assignee: Cavium, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Haverstock & Owens LLP
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04L12/18
Abstract:
A multicast destination table contains a list of links. The list of links includes the main link that is currently in use and alternate links to reach the same destination. The links in the list of links are ordered based on a metric. Each of the links is stored as an entry in the multicast destination table. A multicast replication engine traverses the list of links until an enabled link in the list of links is reached, and replicates a packet according to data associated with the enabled link in the list of links.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180102913A1 FAST HARDWARE SWITCHOVER IN A CONTROL PATH IN A NETWORK ASIC Public/Granted day:2018-04-12
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