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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
May. 11, 2020
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Putu H. Subagio, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ravikanth Nasika, Fremont, CA (US);
Saikat Bhattacharya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chih-Tsung Huang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for handling multidestination traffic in a network are described. The multidestination traffic includes packets that are in transit to a multihomed destination in the network. Upon determining the destination is multihomed, a network switch determines a hash value from a selection of header values in the network traffic and uses the hash value to determine if the network switch is a designated forwarder for the multihomed destination. The network switch handles the network traffic according a designated forwarder status.