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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2015
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Glenn C. Wenig, Pleasanton, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a computing system. The computing system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that are executed by the processor. The computing system stores in a first table a first mapping between a first switch identifier and a next-hop switch identifier for the first switch identifier, and stores in a second table a second mapping between the first switch identifier and a first media access control (MAC) address of a remote device. The computing system encapsulates a first packet, which has first MAC address as a destination address, in a first encapsulation header with the first switch identifier as an egress switch identifier of the first encapsulation header. This encapsulated packet is forwarded in a network of interconnected switches based on the first encapsulation header.