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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
May. 12, 2017
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Levinh Hoang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vijayananda Jayaraman, Milpitas, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for forwarding traffic within an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) fabric of port-extenders by modeling a port-extender as a port-extender Ethernet segment. For example, a method includes receiving, by a provider edge (PE) device of a plurality of PE devices configured with an EVPN instance reachable by a port-extender Ethernet segment connecting the plurality of PE devices to a port-extender device, an EVPN route including information identifying an extended-port of the port-extender device associated with the port-extender Ethernet segment; storing, by the PE device, the information identifying the extended-port of the port-extender device associated with the port-extender Ethernet segment; and generating, by the PE device, a packet header of a data packet to be forwarded toward the extended-port of the port-extender device, the packet header including the information identifying the extended-port of the port-extender device.