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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2020
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Vijai Coimbatore Natarajan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/90 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 47/2441 (2022.01); H04L 45/28 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/90 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 45/54 (2013.01); H04L 47/2441 (2013.01);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a method stores a plurality of requests for routes in a queue based on respective priorities for the routes. The plurality of requests are for programming destinations and next hops for the destinations in a route table that is used by a device in a network to route packets. The method selects a request for a route from the queue based on a respective priority for the queue. Then, the request for the route is sent to an entity to program the route in the route table.