The coronado asic, The catalina asic – Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions 6648 User Manual
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Unknown Destination
OmniSwitch Troubleshooting Guide
September 2005
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The Coronado ASIC
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The Coronado receives the packet via the FBUS.
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The Coronado then strips the 802.1q header that was added on ingress, if needed.
The Catalina ASIC
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Packet is then put on to the Xybus to be received by the Catalina.
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Catalina Egress will generate the CRC and regulate the packet framing including the interpacket gap.
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The above delivers the first few packets of a flow that has an unknown destination via the flood queue.
Traffic is Being Passed; the Switch is Attempting to Put a
Correct L2 DA Entry on the NI
The Coronado ASIC
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Ingress Coronado sends IPC messages to all active Coronados on the BBUS inquiring about the desti-
nation address. All the active Coronados look into their L2SA table and if they have a matching entry
then they sends the Group ID, Mac address, QID, PDI, and request for additional L3/L4 lookups to the
Ingress Coronado.
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Once this information is put into the L2 DA table of the ingress Coronado, the packets are processed as
a known DA and are no longer put on the flood queue.