OS6624/6648 Architecture
page -50 OmniSwitch Troubleshooting Guide September 2005
Layer 3 Forwarding
Packets Arrived
Header 64 Bytes
Apply protocol based VLAN on
Search the IP Source and Destination addresses in the
Does the
address exist
idtb ?
Apply address VLAN for
Untagged packet
Is Routed
Pkt?
Send the packet to CPU for
address Learning
Broadcast the packet to all the
ports in the VLAN
Y
es
No
Apply Filter,
Mirror, Priority,
QOS and WRED
Find Outgoing Tag and Port’s
802.1Q status
Apply Filter, Mirror, Priority,
QOS and WRED Rules
Find outgoing Port’s 802.1Q
tt
Drop the
kt
Modify and Send the Packet to the Destination Port
Is the dest Port
member of
egre
ssVLAN
Is the dest
and receive
port in the
Yes
L3
N
o
L3-
N
Y
es
Y
es
N