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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Samar Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Mouli Vytla, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajendra Kumar Thirumurthi, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one example embodiment, a system configured for providing multifunctional switching is disclosed. The system is configured for filtering at least some incoming traffic to select network packets originating from one or more predefined sources and destined to a predefined destination, load balancing at least some of the selected network packets among a plurality of server nodes to assign each network packet to one server node of the plurality of server nodes, for each network packet assigned to one server node of the plurality of server nodes replacing a destination address of the predefined destination with a destination address of the assigned server node, and forwarding the each network packet assigned to one server node in accordance with the replaced destination address in the network packet.