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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
James N. Guichard, New Boston, NH (US);
Carlos M. Pignataro, Raleigh, NC (US);
Yixing Ruan, San Jose, CA (US);
Javed Asghar, Dublin, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/725 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/306 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to augmenting a Network Service Header (NSH) metadata of a data packet with a virtual routing and forwarding identifier (VRF-ID) and forgoing augmenting a virtual private network (VPN) label into a multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) metadata of the data packet. A provider edge router can use the VRF-ID to identify a next hop for the data packet as a service to be applied prior to forwarding the data packet to a VPN site.