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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Robert E. Barton, Richmond, CA;
Flemming Stig Andreasen, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Elango Ganesan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a device receives discovery data generated by a plurality of networking devices in a network. The device determines, based on the discovery data, a hierarchy of layers of the network. The device receives a request by a client that is external to the network to access remotely a particular endpoint in the network. The device configures, and in response to the request, a proxy chain of remote access agents executed by a subset of networking devices from the plurality of networking devices to allow the client to access remotely the particular endpoint, each of those networking devices proxying traffic between different layers of the network.