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Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2017
Applicant:

Dell Products Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Phaniraj Vattem, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Mukesh Moopath Velayudhan, Fremont, CA (US);

Anoop Ghanwani, Roseville, CA (US);

Swaminathan Sundararaman, Cupertino, CA (US);

Mohan Ayalasomayajula, Fremont, CA (US);

Bhavini Gada, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products LP, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/709 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/245 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/66 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are directed to a process and system for optimizing traffic paths for orphaned hosts in a VXLAN system, by configuring virtual link trunking (VLT) peers to advertise MAC addresses learned from all multi-homed hosts in the system using Anycast VXLAN tunnel endpoint-Internet Protocol address (VTEP-IP); configuring the virtual link trunking (VLT) peers to advertise MAC addresses learned from all single-homed hosts in the system using a secondary VTEP-IP; directing unicast traffic destined to the single-homed hosts to directly connected VLT peers using the Secondary VTEP-IP; and directing Broadcast, unknown unicast, and multi-cast (BUM) traffic destined to the single-homed hosts to directly connected VLT peers using the Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag route.


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