Methods and apparatus for accelerating osi layer 3 routers
CA 2249787 C · Owner: Gullicksen, Jeffrey T. · Inventors: Edholm, Philip; Bernstein, Gregory M.; Gullicksen, Jeffrey T.
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Methods and apparatus for accelerating a router in a communications network are described. In one embodiment, a router accelerator includes a forwarding table for, associatively storing a destination address and a next hop address. If a destination, address of a packet matches a destination address in the forwarding table then logic, forwards the packet to a next hop. A router may be coupled to at least one network port, through the router accelerator. In another approach the network includes at , least one, host and at least one router. The host has at least one routing table for associatively, storing a second-level destination address a second-level next hop address , and a …
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