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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
May. 14, 2019
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raja Kommula, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jeremy Tidemann, Urbana, IL (US);
Constantine Polychronopoulos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marc Andre Bordeleau, Shawinigan, CA;
Edward Choh, Richmond, CA;
Ojas Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Kidd, Champaign, IL (US);
Georgios Oikonomou, Patras, GR;
VMWARE, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In a slice-based network, switches can be programmed to perform routing functions based on a slice identifier. The switch can receive a packet and determine a slice identifier for the packet based on packet header information. The switch can use the slice identifier to determine a next hop. Using the slice identifier with a multi-path table, the switch can select an egress interface for sending the packet to the next hop. The multi-path table can ensure that traffic for a slice stays on the same interface link to the next hop, even when a link aggregation group ('LAG') is used for creation of a virtual channel across multiple interfaces or ports.