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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2018
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Pierre Pfister, Chalons-en-Champagne, FR;
William Mark Townsley, Paris, FR;
Benoît Pit-Claudel, Montrouge, FR;
Aloÿs Christophe Augustin, Paris, FR;
Yoann Desmouceaux, Paris, FR;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Stateless and reliable load balancing using segment routing and an available side-channel may be provided. First, a non-SYN packet associated with a connection may be received. The non-SYN packet may have first data contained in an available side-channel. Next an associated bucket may be retrieved based on a hash of second data in the non-SYN packet. The associated bucket may identify a plurality of servers. Then a one of the plurality of servers may be selected based on the first data contained in the available side-channel.