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Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2022
Applicant:

Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Francois Labonte, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Kartik Chandran, Los Altos, CA (US);

Eswaran Baskaran, Los Altos, CA (US);

Hugh Weber Holbrook, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 49/00 (2022.01); H04L 49/25 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/3045 (2013.01); H04L 49/252 (2013.01);
Abstract

Each switch unit in a networking system shares its local state information among other switch units in the networking system, collectively referred to as the shared forwarding state. Each switch unit creates a respective set of output queues that correspond to ports on other switch unites based on the shared forwarding state. A received packet on an ingress switch unit operating in accordance with a first routing protocol instance can be enqueued on an output queue in the ingress switch; the packet is subsequently processed by the egress switch unit, operating in accordance with a second routing protocol instance that corresponds to the output queue.


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