Patent ID: 11929837
Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 20:
21. The method according to claim 20, wherein classifying the packet comprises:
storing the rules of the corpus in hash tables allocated for the respective eRPs;
extracting a key from a header of the received packet;
selecting a given hash table among the hash tables;
masking the key with the eRP corresponding to the selected hash table for producing an eRP-masked key, and applying a hash function to the eRP-masked key for accessing a bucket in the given hash table;
attempting matching the key to one or more rule entries in the bucket, using RPs and comparison values in the rule entries; and
in response to finding a matching rule in the bucket, applying to the packet an action predefined for the matching rule.