Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080301319 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing accidental stack join protection - The subject matter described herein includes methods and systems for providing accidental stack join protection. According to one embodiment, a method includes connecting stacking ports of a first switch that is a member of a first stack and a second switch that is a member of a second stack and thereby joining the first and second stacks. The configurations of the first stack and of the second stack are detected and it is determined whether the detected configurations indicate a configuration mismatch between the first and second stacks. In response to determining that the detected configurations relate to a mismatch, the automatic joining of the first and second stacks is inhibited and the first and second stacks are allowed to continue switching traffic with their existing configurations. | 12-04-2008 |
20100054246 | CONVERGENCE OF MULTICAST TRAFFIC - A multicast data packet sent from a source node is received by a transit node. The multicast data packet includes a source address and a multicast group address. A hardware cache miss is detected at the transit node for the multicast data packet. The multicast data packet is hardware-flooded onto ports of the network. The flooding consists of forwarding a copy of the multicast data packet to neighbor nodes of the transit node based on virtual local area network (VLAN) membership. A cache-miss copy of the multicast data packet is sent to an out-of-line processing unit where it is processed in software. The processing includes establishing, via a hardware abstraction layer, a hardware cache entry for the multicast data packet. The cache-miss copy is not forwarded onto the network. | 03-04-2010 |
20100254264 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DYNAMICALLY RATE LIMITING SLOWPATH PROCESSING OF EXCEPTION PACKETS - The subject matter described herein includes methods and systems for dynamically rate limiting slowpath processing of exception packets. According to one embodiment, a method includes monitoring processing resources in a packet forwarding device used for performing slowpath processing of exception packets at the packet forwarding device. It is determined whether usage of the processing resources used for slowpath processing exceeds a first threshold and, in response to determining that the processing resources exceed the first threshold, rate limiting the slowpath processing of the exception packets. | 10-07-2010 |
20110222539 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING BETWEEN INTERNET PROTOCOL SWITCHING MODES ON A PER-MODULE BASIS IN A PACKET FORWARDING DEVICE - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically selecting between Internet protocol switching modes on a per-module basis in a packet forwarding device. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a packet forwarding device including at least one input/output (I/O) module. The at least one I/O module includes a longest prefix matching (LPM) table, an Internet protocol forwarding database (IPFDB) and the packet forwarding device includes an IP routing table and an IPFDB. When the I/O module operates in an LPM mode, the IPFDB on the I/O module is populated with entries corresponding to active hosts, the LPM table on the I/O module is populated from the IP routing table with routes learned from IP routing protocols, and layer 3 packets received by the I/O module are routed using the IPFDB and LPM table of the I/O module. An automatic mode-selection module determines a capacity of the LPM table on the I/O module. The automatic mode-selection module also determines a total number of IP routes stored in the IP routing table and determines a relationship between the total number of IP routes and the capacity of the LPM table. In response to determining that the total number of IP routes has a predetermined relationship with the capacity of the LPM table, the automatic mode-selection module also automatically switches the I/O module from the LPM mode to an IPFDB mode, where the IPFDB and the LPM table are populated with entries corresponding to active hosts and layer 3 packets received by the I/O module are routed using the IPFDB and LPM table of the I/O module. | 09-15-2011 |
20110283013 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR STATELESS LOAD BALANCING OF NETWORK TRAFFIC FLOWS - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing stateless load balancing of network traffic flows are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for performing stateless load balancing of network traffic flows. The method occurs at a layer 3 packet forwarding and layer 2 switching device. The method includes responding to address resolution protocol (ARP) requests from clients, the ARP requests including a virtual IP (VIP) address shared by the device and a plurality of servers coupled to the device, with the medium access control (MAC) address of the device. The method also includes receiving, from the clients, packets addressed to the VIP address and having the MAC address of the device. The method further includes load sharing the packets among the servers using a layer 3 forwarding operation that appears to the clients as a layer 2 switching operation. | 11-17-2011 |
20120127996 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR NEXT HOP SCALING - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for next hop scaling. According to one aspect of the subject matter described herein, a system for next hop scaling is provided. The system includes a plurality of I/O modules, each having at least one I/O port for communicating packets to and receiving packets from hosts external to the packet forwarding device. The packet forwarding device further includes a plurality of packet processors associated with the I/O modules for performing packet forwarding operations. The packet forwarding device further includes a memory associated with each packet processor for storing next hop bindings, where an ingress packet processor and memory are configured to relay to an egress packet processor separate from the ingress packet processor a packet whose next hop is connected to the egress packet processor and where the egress packet processor and its memory that receive the packet are configured to perform a next hop lookup to supply a destination MAC address and forward the packet from the packet forwarding device. | 05-24-2012 |
20130329741 | METHODS SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMICALLY TAGGING VLANS - Systems, mechanisms, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for dynamically tagging VLANs. For example, in one embodiment such means include: means for receiving a packet having identified therein a source Media Access Control (MAC) address and a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Identifier, wherein the VLAN identifier corresponds to a VLAN which is non-existent on a network switch; means for modifying the packet received to include two VLAN tags, a first VLAN tag corresponding to the VLAN identifier identified within the packet received and a second VLAN tag, distinct from the first; means for determining no forwarding database entry exists for the modified packet; and means for creating the VLAN on the network switch to handle received packets tagged with the VLAN identifier. | 12-12-2013 |
20150071117 | METHODS SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMICALLY TAGGING VLANS - Systems, mechanisms, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for dynamically tagging VLANs. For example, in one embodiment such means include: means for receiving a packet having identified therein a source Media Access Control (MAC) address and a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Identifier, wherein the VLAN identifier corresponds to a VLAN which is non-existent on a network switch; means for modifying the packet received to include two VLAN tags, a first VLAN tag corresponding to the VLAN identifier identified within the packet received and a second VLAN tag, distinct from the first; means for determining no forwarding database entry exists for the modified packet; and means for creating the VLAN on the network switch to handle received packets tagged with the VLAN identifier. | 03-12-2015 |