Method and apparatus providing prioritized recursion resolution of border gateway protocol forwarding information bases

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7508829
APP PUB NO 20070121524A1
SERIAL NO

11291940

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A method, performed in a network packet routing element, comprises establishing a forwarding information base (FIB) lacking a hierarchical data structure but in which one or more dependent FIB entries are associated with a parent FIB entry; establishing a plurality of strict priority queues, each having an associated priority; receiving a change to the parent FIB entry; for each of the dependent FIB entries, selecting one of the queues and enqueuing the dependent FIB entries in the selected queues for re-resolution; dequeuing the dependent FIB entries for re-resolution, according to a priority order of the queues.

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  • CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

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Bettink, John San Jose , US 7 137
Filsfils, Clarence Brussels , BE 282 10078
Rangarajan, Vijay Fremont , US 17 525

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