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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Jayesh Patel, Fremont, CA (US);
Prabhath Sajeepa, Milpitas, CA (US);
Daniel Talayco, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of address resolution broadcasting in a networked device is provided. The method includes receiving, at a switch fabric of the networked device, an address resolution request from one of a plurality of nodes of the networked device and substituting, as a source address, a cluster MAC address for a MAC address of the one of the plurality of nodes in the address resolution request. The method includes sending the address resolution request over a network and receiving, at the switch fabric, an address resolution reply over the network. The method includes substituting, as a destination address, an address for transmission to each of the plurality of nodes for the cluster MAC address in the address resolution reply, and transmitting the address resolution reply to the plurality of nodes.