HYBRID FIXED/PROGRAMMABLE HEADER PARSER FOR NETWORK DEVICES

• Main Authors: PEERY, Adar, YERUSHALMI, Ilan, AMIR, Aviram, KITTNER, Yaron
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 17.06.2021
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A packet processor of a network device includes a forwarding engine that is configured to determine egress network interfaces via which packets received by the network device are to be transmitted. The packet processor also includes a header parser configured to parse header information in the packe...