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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Satish Kumar Mahadevan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Basavaraju Halappa, San Jose, CA (US);
Prosenjit Sarkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Srinivas Yalamanchali, Fremont, CA (US);
Sourav Sen, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for symmetric routing in a software-defined wide area network (SDWAN) are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: determining a first device group, wherein the first device group includes a first router associated with a branch tag and a second router associated with a hub tag; determining a second device group, wherein the second device group includes a third router associated with and a fourth router associated with the hub tag; transmitting a first route advertisement associated with a first route from the first router to the second router to the first router; transmitting a second route advertisement associated with a second route from the first router to the third router to the first router; and preventing transmission of a third route advertisement associated with a third route from the first router to the fourth router to the first router.