Arista Networks, Inc.

Kiran Kumar Immidi

Prashant Srinivas

Santosh Kumar

Sebastiano Borgione

Kalyan Chakravarthy Nidumolu

Gaofeng Yue

Multicast traffic in a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN). In some embodiments, a method is provided. The method includes registering a network device as a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) tunnel endpoint (VTEP) of a VXLAN. The VXLAN includes an overlay network and the overlay network is implemented on an underlay network. The method also includes receiving multicast traffic from the multicast source. The method further includes transmitting the multicast traffic to one or more multicast receivers using the underlay network.

Multicast traffic in a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN)

A network with consistent hashing for packets across multi-stage lookups in the network is provided. The network members include a first network member configured to receive a packet and form a hash result from information from the packet. The first network member is further configured to look up the hash result in a first indexed table to determine a network member for routing the packet from the first network member towards a second network member of the network. The second network member is configured to receive the packet through the network and determine the hash result, and the second network member is further configured to look up the hash result in an second indexed table to determine a nexthop network member for routing the packet from the second network member, wherein the first network member and the second network member are implemented in hardware, firmware, one or more processors executing software, or combination thereof.

Consistent hashing for packets across multi-stage lookups

Described herein are various embodiments of a network element comprising a network port to receive a unit of network data and a data plane coupled to the network port. In one embodiment the data plane includes a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) module to compare a first set of bits in the unit of network data with a second set of bits in a key associated with a TCAM rule. The second set of bits includes a first subset of bits and a second subset of bits and the TCAM module includes first logic to compare one or more bits in the first set of bits against the second set of bits, and second logic to select an action or a result using bits from either the second subset of bits, from the unit of network data, or from meta data associated with the unit of network data. Other embodiments are also described.

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Kiran Kumar Immidi