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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2002
Christian Cassar, Uxbridge, GB;
Christian Cassar, Uxbridge, GB;
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for redirecting network traffic through a multipoint tunnel overlay network using distinct network address spaces for the overlay and transport networks. In an IP implementation, redirecting traffic to be tunneled across a network comprises deriving the transport IP address of a multipoint tunnel endpoint from the network IP address by making the transport address numerically equivalent to the network address, the transport address being in an address space distinct from the address space of the network address. Traffic is redirected by changing the address space of the next hop in a received routing advertisement.