NETWORK DEVICE USING SOFTWARE FLOW TABLE AND NETWORK PROCESSING UNIT FOR PACKET FORWARDING AND RELATED PACKET FORWARDING METHOD

原文（中国語）

A network device includes a storage device, a hardware-accelerated forwarding circuit, and a network processing unit (NPU). The storage device stores a software flow table, where the software flow table includes a plurality of table entries. The hardware-accelerated forwarding circuit receives a first packet from a network, obtains a first hash value of the first packet, and determines that the first hash value encounters a hash collision in a hardware flow table. The NPU receives the first packet from the hardware-accelerated forwarding circuit, and deals with forwarding of the first packet according to forwarding information recorded in a table entry when the first packet hits the table entry of the software flow table.