FDB equipment and method for adding next hop MAC address into FDB table

Abstract

The present invention relates to an implementation example of a method for adding a next MAC address on an FDB table, which comprises step 1, the adding request message of the next MAC address is transmitted; step 2, an FDB table in a hash unit is confirmed as an initial FDB table according to the initial index value; step 3, whether the FDB table is available or not is detected, and if the FDB table is available, the next MAC address is added to the FDB table; if the FDB table is not available, an FDB table in another hash unit is confirmed as the next FDB table, and the step is repeated till an available FDB table is detected, and added with the next MAC address. The present invention relates to an implementation example of a FDB equipment, which comprises FDB table directional units connected in sequence, an FDB table state detection unit and an adding unit of the next MAC address. In the implementation example of the present invention, the next MAC address is uniformly added to the FDB table, thus the resource utilization rate of the FDB Table is improved, and the learning of a two-layer forwarding address and the impaction of the adding are reduced.

Description

Technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for adding a next hop MAC address to a bridge forwarding database (Forwarding Database, FDB for short) table and an FDB device, belonging to the technical field of data communication. Background technique [0002] The function of the three-layer switch can be simply divided into two-layer forwarding and three-layer forwarding. The second layer forwarding determines the message forwarding exit and other control information based on the media access control (Media Access Control, MAC) address lookup table, and the third layer forwarding determines the forwarding exit and other control information based on the IP address lookup table. [0003] The FDB table in the three-layer switch is mainly used for the decision-making of the two-layer packet forwarding, as shown in Table 1. Its table items mainly include fields such as MAC address, virtual local area network (Virtual Local Area Network, VLAN for short) ID and output port nu...

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Problems solved by technology

However, the problem is that the algorithm is complicated, and the shared Layer 2 forwarding MAC address ages out (each dynamically learned Layer 2 forwarding MAC address has a lifetime, in seconds, and the entry will expire when the time comes. Invalid, this is the Layer 2 forwarding MAC address aging) and deleted, the corresponding route also needs to be updated and maintained correctly

Moreover, if adding a Layer 2 forwarding MAC address, there will be hash conflicts. This occurs when there are still idle resources, and the addition of entries fails, and the highest utilization of resources cannot be achieved.

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