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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ravi Arya, Fremont, CA (US);
Srinivas Ramprasad, Bangalore, IN;
Neeraj Malhotra, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Balaji Kanthasamy, Tirunelveli, IN;
Kishore Karthikeyan, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is described and in one embodiment includes receiving at a network node of an Ethernet Virtual Private Network ('EVPN') an unsolicited neighbor discovery ('ND') neighbor advertisement (“NA”) message transmitted on behalf of a host; updating an ND cache of the network node with data included in the ND NA message; syncing the received ND NA message to a multihoming peer of the network node; and advertising by the network node the ND NA message to other nodes in the EVPN.