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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2021
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tim Tang, Burnaby, CA;
Mayukh Saubhasik, Richmond, CA;
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a network device for forwarding packets as part of a network comprising an adjacent device connected to the network device via a link. The network device includes a switching system for directing the packets between ports of the network device, wherein a port of the ports is operably connected to the adjacent device via the link, and a switching system manager programmed to: identify a failure of the link, in response to identifying the failure of the link, perform a multi-tiered next hop failover of the switching system based on the failure of the link to obtain an updated switching system that does not forward the packets using the failed link, and forward a portion of the packets using the updated switching system.