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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Anand Oswal, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Muninder Singh Sambi, Fremont, CA (US);
Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Pleasanton, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An application switch instantiates two application-side network service instances for the same application. Each network service instance is characterized by a common Internet Protocol (IP) address, a common Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model layer 2 (L2) media access control (MAC) address, and a unique (for the application) supplemental L2 identifier. The application switch maintains a mapping between a {client IP address, client port} tuple and a particular instantiated network service instance based at least in part on the supplemental L2 identifier of a particular one of the instantiated first and second network service instances. When the application switch receives a client communication via an application switch client-side network, the application switch determines the particular instantiated network service instance corresponding to the {<client IP address>, <client port>} tuple based on the mapping, and switches the received client communication to the determined application-side network service instance.