Abstract: Systems and methods herein are for one or more processing units to be associated with at least one switch or router and to enable the at least one switch or router to receive a communication from a source host machine, where the communication includes a request associated with memory access protocols of a memory space of a destination host machine, and where the communication is to be provided to the destination host machine to enable subsequent communications from the source host machine that are based in part on the memory access protocols received in response to the request.

Abstract: A network device, system, and method are provided. In one example, a system is described that includes a plurality of communication nodes and a network device that interconnects and facilitates a transmission of packets between the plurality of communication nodes. The system may be configured such that the packets are transmitted between the plurality of communication nodes by applying a filter to a converged forwarding table.

Abstract: Systems and methods herein are for one or more processing units to be associated with at least one switch or router of different route layers and to enable the at least one switch or router to receive a communication from a host machine, wherein the communication includes at least a data packet and a hash header, wherein the data packet is for transmission to other host machines through at least one of available egress ports of the at least one switch or router, and where the at least one of the available egress ports is determined based in part on a hash in the hash header.

Abstract: A networking device and system are described, among other things. An illustrative system is disclosed to include a switch programmed to route a received packet to an egress port based on a combination of a destination address associated with the received packet and an identification of an ingress port from which the packet was received by the switch.

Abstract: A system for implementing a multiplane network comprises a network device including a plurality of switches for routing traffic to an endpoint through a network of other switches. Each switch in the plurality of switches corresponds to a different plane of the multiplane network. The system includes one or more circuits that manages the plurality of switches as a single logical entity.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a network switch device includes a network interface comprising ingress ports and egress ports, and configured to receive forwarding-table-configuration packets from a network management node, a processor to form a forwarding table based on the received forwarding-table-configuration packets, generate a forwarding-table-override configuration for a given ingress port of the ingress ports to override at least one forwarding rule of the forwarding table for the given ingress port, and install the forwarding table and the forwarding-table-override configuration for use by the given ingress port, and forwarding circuitry to forward packets received at the given ingress port based on the forwarding table overridden by the forwarding-table-override configuration.

Abstract: A switch, communication system, and method are provided. In one example, a communication system is described that includes a plurality of communication nodes and a switch that interconnects and facilitates a transmission of packets between the plurality of communication nodes. The communication system may be configured such that the packets are transmitted between the plurality of communication nodes using a segmented forwarding table.

Abstract: Systems and methods herein are for one or more processing units to communicate configuration information between a subnet manager (SM) and at least one switch, where the configuration information is to enable the at least one switch to provide communication between at least two host machines through a number of network links that exclusively use two or more physical ports of the at least two host machines, and where the configuration information is associated with a mapping of different virtual network addresses and two or more physical ports and is associated with a relationship between the different virtual network addresses.

Abstract: A method for communication includes provisioning each node in a network with a respective set of two or more network addresses. Each node in succession is assigned a respective network address from the respective provisioned set that has not been assigned for use by any preceding node. Upon finding for a given node that all the network addresses in the respective provisioned set were assigned to preceding nodes, the preceding nodes are searched to identify a candidate node having an additional network address in the respective provisioned set, other than the assigned respective network address, that was not yet assigned to any of the nodes. The additional network address is assigned to the candidate node instead of the respective network address that was previously assigned to the candidate node, and the assigning of the network addresses to the nodes in the succession resumes following the candidate node.

Abstract: A method for communication includes provisioning each node in a network with a respective set of two or more network addresses. Each node in succession is assigned a respective network address from the respective provisioned set that has not been assigned for use by any preceding node. Upon finding for a given node that all the network addresses in the respective provisioned set were assigned to preceding nodes, the preceding nodes are searched to identify a candidate node having an additional network address in the respective provisioned set, other than the assigned respective network address, that was not yet assigned to any of the nodes. The additional network address is assigned to the candidate node instead of the respective network address that was previously assigned to the candidate node, and the assigning of the network addresses to the nodes in the succession resumes following the candidate node.