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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Rajagopalan Janakiraman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yibin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Pags Krishnamoorthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Padmanabhan Krishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A monitoring session associated with a virtual nickname may be established in a TRILL network. A monitoring station may be connected to an edge switch of the TRILL network specifying the virtual nickname for the monitoring session. The monitoring station is set as a destination for the monitoring session and the virtual nickname is flooded throughout the TRILL network. A source may then be configured to the monitoring session by specifying the virtual nickname of the monitoring session without knowing the destination tied to the monitoring session. Network traffic through the source may then be forwarded to the destination tied to the monitoring session.