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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Satyam Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Smita Rai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kit Chiu Chu, Fremont, CA (US);
Ashutosh Agrawal, Fremont, CA (US);
Wanli Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravikanth Nasika, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas J. Edsall, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Geetha Anandakrishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the embodiments include receiving a packet at a network element of a packet-switched network; identifying a presence of a shared service destination address in a header of the packet; identifying a shared service destination address for the packet based, at least in part, on a destination internet protocol (IP) address stored in a forward information base; and forwarding the packet to the shared service destination address.