Patent ID: 9237072
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for partitioning a distributed fabric system, the method comprising: providing a plurality of switches that each link a packet-based network to the distributed fabric network; allocating at least one of the plurality of switches to each of a plurality of non-overlapping switching domains; allocating at least one system port to each switching domain; producing multiple different look-up tables, wherein each look-up table corresponds to a different switching domain of the multiple non-overlapping switching domains in the distributed fabric system; and associating each system port with the look-up table of the multiple look-up tables that corresponds to the switching domain to which that system port is allocated, the look-up table associated with each system port having at least one table entry for each other system port allocated to the same switching domain as that system port.