Research Article

PCIU: Hardware Implementations of an Efficient Packet Classification Algorithm with an Incremental Update Capability

Table 1

A five-rule classifier.

No. IP (64 bits)Port (32 bits)Protocol (8 bits)
Source (32 bits) Destination (32 bits) Source (16 bits)Destination (16 bits)

1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 0 : 65535 21 : 21 0/ff
20.83.1.0/24 0.0.4.6/320 : 65535 20 : 30 17/ff
30.83.4.0/22 0.0.0.0/00 : 65535 21 : 21 0/0
4 0.0.9.0/24 0.0.0.0/00 : 65535 0 : 65535 0/ff
5 0.83.0.77/32 0.0.4.6/320 : 65535 0 : 65535 17/ff