Transitioning a routing switch device between network protocols

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9699063
APP PUB NO 20150350056A1
SERIAL NO

14711932

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The present disclosure provides a method and device for use by a routing switch device. In response to a determination to switch the routing switch device to switch from a conventional mode to an OpenFlow mode the following operations are performed. Table items of a forwarding table in the conventional mode are converted to flow table items in the OpenFlow mode. The converted flow table items are stored in a flow table of the routing switch device. Processing a received data packet based, at least in part, on the converted flow table items stored in the flow table.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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He, Jing Wuxi, CN 219 1113
Li, Yuan Changzhou, CN 419 4145
Song, Yi bo Wuxi, CN 3 16
Yang, Liang Wellington, NZ 88 186

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