System and method of processing network data
AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorsFrancois Labonte, Hugh W. Holbrook
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of a network element that processes control plane data in a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element receives network data and determines a class of the network data. The network element additionally determines that this class of the network data is to be processed. The network element further marks the network data based on at least on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the class of the network data. Furthermore, the network element queues the network data.
Claims20
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to process network data in a network element, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the network element, network data;
- determining a class of the network data;
- determining that the determined class of the network data is to be processed;
- marking the received network data based on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the determined class of the received network data;
- and
- queuing the received network data.
A method to process network data in a network element, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the network element, the network data, wherein network data is data that is processed by the network element;
- determining a class of the received network data;
- determining that the determined class of the received network data is to be processed;
- marking the received network data based on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the determined class of the network data;
- and
- queuing the received network data.
A network element to process control plane data, the network element comprising:
- a port;
- a data plane, coupled to the port, to receive control plane data via the port;
- and
- a control plane, coupled to the data plane, that includes,
- memory that stores instructions that when executed by the network element causes the data plane to receive the network data, determine a class of the network data, determine that this class of the received network data is to be processed;
- mark the network data based on an existence of an indication of whether the network element had previously processed other data in the same class as the determined class of the received network data, and queue the received control plane data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.