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Forwarding table reduction and multipath network forwarding

  • US 8,532,099 B2
  • Filed: 09/17/2010
  • Issued: 09/10/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a processor; and

    a memory, at least one of the processor or the memory being adapted for;

    interfacing with a plurality of host devices, the plurality of host devices identified by Media Access Control (MAC) addresses; and

    maintaining a first Remote MAC Table (RMT) that records a correspondence between MAC addresses of the host devices and hierarchical addresses of ports of a plurality of edge switches, wherein the apparatus is a first edge switch of the plurality of edges switches; and

    populating a switch forwarding table (“

    SFT”

    ) of the first edge switch with a switch address of every other active core switch and edge switch in a network, wherein data packets are transferred according to the hierarchical addresses.

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