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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2018
Applicant:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anuraag Mittal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aparna Sushrut Karanjkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nitin Ravindra Karkhanis, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thejesh Ajjikariappla Panchappa, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/4076 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4645 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for inspecting unicast network traffic between end points residing within a same zone. Specifically, the method and system disclosed herein entail the provisioning of unique forward-service and reverse-service virtual network identifiers (VNIs), and corresponding virtual layer-2 (VL2) forward-service and reverse-service broadcast domains, respectively, to communications originating from and destined to intercept hosts.