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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
May. 26, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jesus Arango, San Ramon, CA (US);
Vina Ermagan, San Jose, CA (US);
Johnson Leong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A Location/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) mapping server, including: a network interface for communicating with a LISP-enabled network; a mapping database; a subscription database; and an overlapping subscription publication engine (OSPE) to: receive a first mapping of a first subnetwork to a first routing locator (RLOC); add the first mapping to the mapping database; receive from a first ingress tunnel router (ITR) a subscription request for an endpoint identifier (EID) within the first subnetwork; add to a first subscription entry for the first subnetwork in the subscription database a subscription for the first ITR; receive a second mapping of a second subnetwork to a second RLOC, wherein the second subnetwork overlaps the first subnetwork; add the second mapping to the mapping database; and copy at least part of the first subscription entry to a second subscription entry for the second subnetwork.