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NETWORK PACKET STEERING VIA CONFIGURABLE ASSOCIATION OF PROCESSING RESOURCES AND NETMODS OR LINE INTERFACE PORTS

  • US 20070147368A1
  • Filed: 03/10/2007
  • Published: 06/28/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • configuring a plurality of processing resources of a network routing/switching device by assigning each of the processing resources of the plurality of processing resources one of a plurality of unique identifiers within the network routing/switching device, each of the plurality of processing resources comprising a network packet forwarding resource, a network packet routing resource, a network packet encryption/decryption resource or a network packet authentication resource; and

    dynamically assigning each of the plurality of processing resources to one or more network interfaces of a plurality of network interfaces of the network routing/switching device or one or more components of the plurality of network interfaces by (i) receiving mappings that dynamically associate the plurality of unique identifiers with desired network interfaces of the one or more network interfaces or desired components of the one or more components, and (ii) providing each of those of the plurality of network interfaces that have been assigned a processing resource of the plurality of processing resources with a steering table to be used by the network interface to steer subsequently received network packets to the assigned processing resource.

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