Packet forwarding apparatus suitable for forwarding extended frame
US7924882B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 26, 2008 |
| Grant date | Apr 12, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 22, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L12/4641
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A packet forwarding apparatus (L2SW) having a frame segmentation function of converting a extended Ethernet frame such as a MAC-in-MAC frame into a plurality of fragment frames when a payload length of the received frame exceeds a standard MTU size communicable in an Ethernet network to be a forwarding destination, by segmenting the received frame into a plurality of data blocks having a size not longer than the MTU size, and a frame assembling function of restoring an original extended frame from a series of fragment frames received from the Ethernet network.
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