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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2017
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anuraag Mittal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aparna Karanjkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nitin Ravindra Karkhanis, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method for handling media access control (MAC) frames. The method includes receiving, by a service virtual tunnel end point (VTEP) and from a source VTEP, a first virtual layer-3 (VL3) frame comprising a dedicated virtual network identifier (VNI), decapsulating the first VL3 frame to obtain a first media access control (MAC) frame comprising a dedicated virtual local area network (VLAN) tag, replacing, in the first MAC frame, the dedicated VLAN tag with an original VLAN tag, and bridging the first MAC frame to a service device directly connected to a first network element on which the service VTEP is executing.