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Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2017
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Patrice Brissette, Gatineau, CA;

Luc André Burdet, Gatineau, CA;

Samir Thoria, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4679 (2013.01);
Abstract

Presented herein is an exemplified system and method that implicit aliasing in an EVPN network having provider edge nodes in a network infrastructure (e.g., a MPLS infrastructure). In particular, the exemplified system and method employ a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) based EVPN construct that facilitates multiplexing across large number of different physical interfaces, among multiple device manufacturers and vendors, while providing implicit antialiasing functionality, and being fully supportive of EVPN capabilities. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that joins the reachability information from a first network device and a second network device, in response to receiving a first EVPN advertisement from the first network device and receiving a second EVPN advertisement from the second network device, such that traffic later transmitted in associated with the first EVI or the first ESI are routable to both the first network device and the second network device.


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