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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth James Duda, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
ARISTA NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/17 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 47/2441 (2022.01); H04L 47/50 (2022.01); H04L 101/622 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/17 (2013.01); H04L 45/54 (2013.01); H04L 47/2441 (2013.01); H04L 2101/622 (2022.05);
Abstract
In general, the invention relates to a method for programming a network device to perform routing of data packets between and/or within networks. More specifically, the method provides a more efficient process for updating the forwarding equivalence class (FEC) table with minimal impacting of the mappings in the forward information base (FIB) of the network device.