| 摘要 |
A packet forwarding apparatus (300), including at least two autonomous packet forwarding components (302, 304, 306) having respective external interfaces for connection to respective external networks (310, 312, 314), and respective internal interfaces for connection to a network internal to said apparatus and interconnecting (308) said at least two packet forwarding components (302, 304, 306), the internal interfaces being addressable only by link layer addresses or addresses in a subnet of a loopback network. |
