Cisco Technology, Inc.

Ramesh M Santhanakrishnan

Ali Golshan

Pagalavan Krishnamoorthy

Venkataraman Natham

Michael Wu

Anusankar Elangovan

Chengelpet Ramesh

Wafo L Tengueu

Chengelpet V Ramesh

Michael T Wu

Techniques are provided for implementing clustering services in a virtual data center or other virtualized infrastructure in a manner that allows packets to be directed to a particular service engine of a service engine cluster.

Directing data flows in data centers with clustering services

A technique that may be used to limit the amount of flooding that occurs for a particular virtual local area network (VLAN) in a data network. Limits are established for VLANs processed by an intermediate node. Each limit indicates a number of forwarding database entries that may be associated with a particular VLAN. If the number of entries in the forwarding database reaches the limit established for a particular VLAN, an action is taken which may include limiting the amount of flooding that occurs for that VLAN.

Dynamic unknown L2 flooding control with MAC limits

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Ramesh M Santhanakrishnan