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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shyam Kapadia, San Jose, CA (US);
Viral Barot, San Jose, CA (US);
Abhinandan Prativadi Bayankaram, Fremont, CA (US);
Naoshad Mehta, San Jose, CA (US);
Nilesh Shah, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/12 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/46 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network device is configured to establish a messaging bus with a container networking plug-in, which is associated with a container virtual network. The network device is also configured to obtain, via the messaging bus, networking information for one or more containers hosted at the at least one container-hosting computing device. Based on the networking information, the network device provides visibility of one or more containers below the network device.