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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2018
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mehak Mahajan, San Jose, CA (US);
Samir D. Thoria, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shyam Kapadia, San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving at a controller an Address Resolution Protocol ('ARP') packet from a source VXLAN Tunnel End Point ('VTEP') serving a source host and identifying a destination, the source VTEP having assigned thereto a Virtual Network Identifier (“VNI”) identifying a VXLAN network to which the source VTEP and a plurality of other VTEPs belong, the ARP packet being received by the controller via a control plane; determining whether the received ARP packet is a request message; and, if the received ARP packet is a request message, determining whether address information for the identified destination is stored in a cache of the controller.