Managing next hop groups in routers

FD Sinn - US Patent 10,404,598, 2019 - Google Patents
Technologies are provided for organizing network routes using network topology
information. A router in a computer network can be configured to group network address …

Protection against rule map update attacks

E Kruglick - US Patent 9,231,916, 2016 - Google Patents
Technologies are described herein to manage the replacement of routing rules. Some
example technologies may receive a request to replace one or more active rules in a routing …

Dynamic route exchange

R Balay, S Tyagi - US Patent App. 10/273,669, 2004 - Google Patents
Methods, Systems, and Virtual Routers are provided for providing dynamic route exchange
between routers. First and second routers are configured to communicate route information …

Pipelined evaluations for algorithmic forwarding route lookup

B Singh, TA Volpe, KA O'brien - US Patent 10,135,734, 2018 - Google Patents
Packet processors or other devices with packet processing pipelines may implement
pipelined evaluations of algorithmic forwarding route lookups. As network packets are …

Increasing entropy across routing table segments

B Singh, KA O'brien - US Patent 10,666,564, 2020 - Google Patents
Entropy in routing tables may be increase to perform packet forwarding. Hash tables that
store forwarding routes may be divided into multiple hash table segments. Forwarding …

Increasing entropy across routing table segments

B Singh, KA O'brien - US Patent 9,979,648, 2018 - Google Patents
Entropy in routing tables may be increase to perform packet forwarding. Hash tables that
store forwarding routes may be divided into multiple hash table segments. Forwarding …

Pipelined evaluations for algorithmic forwarding route lookup

B Singh, TA Volpe, KA O'brien - US Patent 10,764,181, 2020 - Google Patents
Packet processors or other devices with packet processing pipelines may implement
pipelined evaluations of algorithmic forwarding route lookups. As network packets are …

Packet-based memory test of a network device

M Nicholson, D Patil - US Patent 8,345,558, 2013 - Google Patents
A router may be tested using a packet-based testing technique in which the test packets are
generated by the router. In one implementation, a forwarding plane in a router may include a …

External network route advertisement validation

TB Scholl - US Patent 11,115,309, 2021 - Google Patents
Probe packets are transmitted from a source network to an external network to validate that
the external network is accepting network prefix announcements to be loaded into …

Detecting and preventing network loops

N Manthiramoorthy, V Srinivasan… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for
detecting network loops. In some embodiments, a system can identify a port that is in a …