Arista Networks, Inc.

Ramakrishnan Ganapathy Iyer

Vishal Bandekar

Digvijay Singh Gahlot

Legena Puthanpurayil Kuttipunathil

Rajesh Kumar Semwal

Sriram Sellappa

Vijay Mahadevan

Victor Wen

Niranjan Nagaraju

Systems and methods for the storing and distribution of routes with different length prefixes between different tables in network devices utilizing lookup strengths associated with prefix lengths are disclosed. The results from performing lookups in these tables may have associated lookup strengths based on the prefix length of the associated routes, and the evaluation of which route to utilize for packet processing can be determined utilizing these associated lookup strengths. In this manner, a desired route for such packet processing may be determined regardless of the table where a route resides.

Storing and selection of entries in routing tables based on prefix length

Packet processing in a EVPN L2 MPLS deployment includes performing tag editing operations in the egress pipeline. More particularly, tag manipulation is based on the egress port. Packet processing further includes performing ESI label selection in the egress pipeline, and includes selecting the ESI label based on the ingress port where the ingress port can be a physical port or a subinterface configured on a physical port.

Egress pipeline with tag manipulation and ESI label push capability

Prefix compression routes provided via exact match using redirection and mirroring Forwarding Equivalence Class entries in hardware. In a network device, a first table is stored having a first entry, a second table is stored having a second entry, and a third table is stored having a third entry including routing information for routing data packets. The first entry references a first memory location in the second table, the second memory location stores the second entry, and the second entry referencing a second memory location in the third table. A data packet is received, and the first entry is accessed based on a destination address of the data packet. Routing information is obtained as a result of accessing the first entry. The data packet is sent by the network device according to the routing information.

Prefix compression routes in exact match using redirection and mirroring FECs in hardware

Systems and methods are provided herein for allocating the same ESI label on multihomed peers for a given ES. In some embodiments, each network device that provides multihoming to a host using an ES, advertises EVPN AD per ES routes to each other, wherein the EVPN AD per ES routes comprise an ESI label associated with the ES. Because the network devices advertise the same ESI label for the ES, a first network device generates a bitmap. The first network device uses the bitmap to include the advertised ESI label in replicated packets that the first network device forwards to the other network devices that provide multihoming to the host via the ES. The network devices that consider themselves non-DF devices will drop the packet. The network devices that consider themselves the DF device will not forward the packet to the host via the ES because of the ESI label.

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Ramakrishnan Ganapathy Iyer