| 摘要 |
The invention relates to a packet forwarding apparatus provided with a plurality of line interface units (122) each connected to an input line (123) and an output line (123), comprising a routing processing unit (111) for referring to a routing table, based on header information of each of packets received from the input lines by said line interface units (122), and specifying one of said output lines (123) from which the packet should be output; a flow detection unit (112,812,1012,3612) comprising a common table for storing a plurality of entries therein, and a list table (760,860,1060,3560) for storing therein pointer addresses for accessing the entries lying within said common table, said list table being divided into a plurality of sub-list tables corresponding to the values of a specific flow attribute.
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