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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2009
Apurva Mehta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ramasamy Ramanathan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kumar Mehta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sunesh Rustagi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sanjiv Doshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Shiva Shenoy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apurva Mehta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ramasamy Ramanathan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kumar Mehta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sunesh Rustagi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sanjiv Doshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Shiva Shenoy, Los Altos, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for routing frames in a TRILL network using service VLAN identifiers by: receiving a frame from an ingress bridge node for transmission through the TRILL network to a destination node that connects to the TRILL network through an egress node, the received frame including a customer VLAN identifier, a service VLAN identifier uniquely assigned to the ingress bridge node, and a destination node address for the destination node, the received frame not having mac-in-mac encapsulation; adding, in dependence upon the service VLAN identifier and the destination node address, a TRILL header conforming to the TRILL protocol, the TRILL header including an ingress bridge nickname and an egress bridge nickname; and routing, to the egress bridge node through which the destination node connects to the network, the frame in dependence upon the ingress bridge nickname and the egress bridge nickname.