Cisco Technology, Inc.

Ganesh P Murthy

Ming Zhang

Rajesh Babu Nataraja

Chengelpet Ramesh

Yaonan Liang

Chengelpet V Ramesh

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a server, flow data for a plurality of flows at a network device, the flow data comprising for each flow, a destination address and a time indicating when a last packet was processed for the flow at the server, updating a flow table at the network device, identifying one of the flows in the flow table as an inactive flow, and removing a route for the inactive flow from a forwarding information base at the network device. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.

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Ganesh P Murthy