Patent ID: 8243741
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A frame switching device for switching frames in a frame switching network, the frame switching device being communicably coupled to other frame switching devices via the frame switching network, the frame switching device comprising: a plurality of ports communicably coupled to the other frame switching devices in the frame switching network each of the plurality of ports sending a sending frame and receiving a frame; a first address entry memory for storing one or more address entries, each storing a first address indicating a sender address of a frame that was received via a first port, in association with the first port; a flooding processor to execute a flooding process for a second address when the second address is not stored in any one of the one or more address entries of the first address entry memory, the second address indicating a destination address of a frame that is to be sent from the frame switching device; and a processor to: