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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2018
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an example, there is disclosed a network apparatus for providing native load balancing within a switch or router, including a first network interface operable to communicatively couple to a first network; a plurality of second network interfaces operable to communicatively couple to a second network; one or more logic elements comprising a switching engine operable for providing network switching or routing; and one or more logic elements forming a load balancing engine operable for receiving incoming network traffic via the first network, the incoming traffic having a destination internet protocol address (IP) corresponding to a virtual IP (VIP) designated for load balancing; assigning the incoming traffic to a traffic bucket associated with the second network; and logging the assigning; wherein the switching engine and load balancing engine are configured to be provided on the same hardware as each other and as the first network interface and plurality of second network interface.