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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2021
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prasad Miriyala, San Jose, CA (US);
Wen Lin, Andover, MA (US);
Suresh Palguna Krishnan, Fremont, CA (US);
SelvaKumar Sivaraj, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kumuthini Ratnasingham, Saratoga, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A plurality of switches may be arranged according to a spine and leaf topology in which each spine switch is connected to all leaf switches. A leaf switch includes a memory configured to store a plurality of policies, each of the plurality of policies being associated with a respective source identifier value and a respective destination address; a network interface communicatively coupled to one of the spine switches; and a processor implemented in circuitry and configured to: receive a packet from the spine switch via the network interface, the packet being encapsulated with a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) header; extract a source identifier value from the VXLAN header; determine a destination address for the packet; determine a policy of the plurality of policies to apply to the packet according to the source identifier value and the destination address; and apply the policy to the packet.