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Combined Hardware/Software Forwarding Mechanism and Method

  • US 20110228781A1
  • Filed: 03/01/2011
  • Published: 09/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of utilizing hardware forwarding and software forwarding of network traffic, comprising:

  • classifying a packet based at least in part on a priority of a flow to which the packet corresponds;

    selecting one of a forwarding engine implemented using the processor executing the machine readable instructions or a hardware forwarding engine to make a forwarding decision regarding the packet, wherein the selection is based on at least one of;

    i) an availability of one or more resources of the hardware forwarding engine and/or the forwarding engine implemented using the processor executing the machine readable instructions, or ii) the classification of the packet; and

    forwarding the packet using the selected forwarding engine.

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