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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2018
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Liqin Dong, San Jose, CA (US);
Yibin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for programming a MAC address table by a first leaf node in a network comprising a plurality of leaf nodes is provided. Each leaf node comprises one or more Virtual Tunnel End Points ('VTEPs') and instantiates a plurality of Virtual Routing and Forwarding elements ('VRFs'), with a corresponding Bridge Domain (“BD”) assigned to each VRF. The method includes obtaining information indicating one or more VTEP Affinity Groups (VAGs), each VAG comprising an identification of one VTEP per leaf node, obtaining information indicating assignment of each VRF to one of the VAGs, assigning each VAG to a unique Filtering Identifier (“FID”), thereby generating one or more FIDs, and programming the MAC address table, using FIDs instead of BDs, by populating the MAC address table with a plurality of entries, each entry comprising a unique combination of a FID and a MAC address of a leaf node.