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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2008
Pedro R. Marques, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pedro R. Marques, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A routing protocol, such as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), is extended in a manner that allows the protocol to opaquely carry routing attributes associated with an origin of a routing advertisement, e.g., a customer network of associated with a virtual private network (VPN). These attributes are carried within routing communications using a separate attribute set, and are automatically utilized when delivering the routing advertisement to other customer networks associated with the VPN. As a result, the customer networks are isolated from the routing attributes used within an intermediate network coupling the customer networks.