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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas James Edsall, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Navindra Yadav, Cupertino, CA (US);
Francisco M. Matus, Saratoga, CA (US);
Kit Chiu Chu, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael R. Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Sameer Merchant, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Krishna Doddapaneni, Cupertino, CA (US);
Satyam Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods of forwarding packets on a network, such as a leaf-spine network having leaf devices and spine devices. The methods may include receiving a packet at an ingress leaf device, and determining based, at least in part, on a header of the packet whether the packet is to be transmitted to a spine device. The methods may further include ascertaining based, at least in part, on a header of the packet whether to perform encapsulation on the packet, encapsulating the packet according to a result of the ascertaining, and then transmitting the packet to a spine device according to a result of the determining. Also disclosed herein are network apparatuses which include a processor and a memory, at least one of the processor or the memory being configured to perform some or all of the foregoing described methods.