Fountainhead Law Group P.C.
Techniques for customizing forwarding decisions via a hardware lookup result
Techniques for customizing forwarding decisions in a network device via a hardware lookup table result are provided. In one embodiment, a network processor of the network device can perform a lookup into a lookup table based on one or more sections of a received packet. The network processor can then determine, based on the lookup, an entry in the lookup table and retrieve, using a pointer included in the lookup table entry, a mode value from a results table. The mode value can identify an operational flow (e.g., a series of forwarding decisions) to be carried out by the network processor for forwarding the received packet.
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
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Jian Wing-Keung Adam
Liu Yeung