ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FAST PACKET FORWARDING WITH REFERENCE TO ADDITIONAL NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION TABLE

摘要

An electronic apparatus includes a first translation table that stores information of a first address and a second address; a second translation table that, in response to a condition being satisfied, stores the information of the first address and the second address based on the first translation table; at least one processor configured to translate the first address of a first packet to the second address based on the first translation table; and a forwarding manager that, in response to a second packet including the first address being received and the information of the first address and the second address being stored in the second translation table, translates the first address of the second packet to the second address based on the second translation table, prior to allocating the second packet to the at least one processor.