John H. W. Bettink

Route processor adjusting of line card admission control parameters for packets destined for the route processor

Installing and using a subset of routes for forwarding packets

Instrumenting packet flows

Methods and apparatus for processing packets including distributing packets across multiple packet processing engines and gathering the processed packets from the processing engines

Scalable mpls fast reroute switchover with reduced complexity

Data structure identifying for multiple addresses the reverse path forwarding information for a common intermediate node and its use

Multilevel coupled policer

Method and apparatus providing prioritized recursion resolution of border gateway protocol forwarding information bases

Methods and apparatus for processing packets including accessing one or more resources shared among processing engines

Efficient convergence of grouped vpn prefixes