Patent ID: 7796587

Claim:
A method of processing a plurality of sets of routing information received from corresponding ones of a plurality of neighbor nodes connectable to a router, the router having a plurality of memory units accessible via separate paths, the method comprising: said router creating a respective plurality of non-identical routing information subsets from each of at least one of the received sets of routing information; said router accessing the plurality of memory units via the separate paths; and said router storing the plurality of non-identical routing information subsets created from a given one of said received sets of routing information in respective ones of the plurality of memory units, wherein said at least one of the received sets of routing information is a plurality of the received sets of routing information, and wherein at least one of the plurality of non-identical routing information subsets created from the given one of said received sets of routing information comprises a portion that is not present in any of the other ones of the non-identical routing information subsets created from the given one of said received sets of routing information.