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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Putu H. Subagio, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ravikanth Nasika, Fremont, CA (US);
Saikat Bhattacharya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chih-Tsung Huang, Burlingame, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for handling multidestination traffic in a network are described. It is determined that a destination of a packet, received at a network device, is a multihomed destination. In response to determining that the destination of the packet is a multihomed destination, a hash value is determined from a selection of header values of the packet using a hash function. The packet is forwarded to the destination using a shadow hash forwarding table based at least in part on determining, based on the hash value and a hash forwarding table, that the network device is a designated forwarder for the packet.