A FAST PACKET FORWARDING ENGINE FOR SCALABLE ROUTING

摘要

The present invention relates to a fast packet forwarding engine for scalable routing characterized in that wherein the present invention is a forwarding engine for multicast routers that accelerates the forwarding of packets such that it improves their performance to support group communications applications and wherein the present invention comprises of a bitmap field added to the packet header such as IP source address, the IP destination address and the bitmap field and wherein when a source wants to send a packet to an active receivers, it sends a packet to a router with bitmap configuration and with a receiver list and wherein the router performs route lookups for all destinations.