Some embodiments of the invention provide a forwarding element that has a data-plane
circuit (data plane) that can be configured to implement one or more load balancers. The …

(57) ABSTRACT A method for generating configuration data for configuring a hardware
switch is described. The method receives a description of functionality for the hardware …

Some embodiments provide a method for scheduling a packet to be dequeued to a
processing pipeline of a hardware forwarding element. The method selects a node …

(57) ABSTRACT A synchronous packet-processing pipeline whose data paths are
populated with data-plane stateful processing units (DS PUs) is provided. A DSPU is a …

Some embodiments provide a method for configuring unit memories (eg, unit static random
access memories (SRAMs) and ternary content addressable memories (TCAMs) of a …

One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes one or
more ports, a media access control (MAC) address management apparatus, and a for …

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Some embodiments provide a method for processing a packet for a pipeline of a hardware
switch. The pipeline, in some embodiments, includes several different stages that match …

Some embodiments provide a method for a deparser of a processing pipeline. The method
receives, from a set of match-action stages of the pipeline, packet header field (PHF) values …

An algorithmic TCAM based ternary lookup method is provided. The method stores entries
for ternary lookup into several sub-tables. All entries in each sub-table have a sub-table key …