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US 2006/0187930 A1Published application
Dynamic table sharing of memory space within a network device
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsBrandon Smith, Jun Cao
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AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsBrandon Smith, Jun Cao
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A network device for processing data on a data network includes a port interface configured to receive a data packet from a data network and to send a processed data packet to an egress port of the plurality of ports, a packet evaluation module configured to parse the received data packet and modify the received data packet to form the processed data packet and a search engine configured to perform searches of lookup tables using parsed data packet values and to return search results to the packet evaluation module to assist in modifying the received data packet. At least one lookup table shares at least two different types of entries in that same at least one lookup table, where the search engine is configured to distinguish between the at least two different types of entries in that same at least one lookup table.
A network device for processing data on a data network, the network device comprising:
A method for processing data in a network device, the method comprising the steps of:
A network device for processing data, the network device comprising:
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