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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
May. 17, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mouli Vytla, San Jose, CA (US);
Samar Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network apparatus for providing native load balancing, having: a first network interface to communicatively couple to a first network; a plurality of second network interfaces to communicatively couple to a second network; one or more logic elements providing a switching engine to provide network switching or routing; and one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware logic element, providing a load balancing engine to: load balance network traffic among a plurality of service nodes; probe a first service node with a first probe; and probe a second service node with a second probe, the second probe different in kind from the first probe.