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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/701 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4675 (2013.01); H04L 45/00 (2013.01); H04L 61/2514 (2013.01); H04L 61/2592 (2013.01); H04L 61/6068 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes configuring on a network element a first tunnel from the network element to a first network, wherein the configuring comprises mapping a nexthop address of the local network element to a transport address of the tunnel on the network to create a first nexthop-to-transport mapping for the network element; and advertising the first nexthop-to-transport mapping along with routing information for the network element to remote network elements.