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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2008
Applicants:
Prashanth Pappu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ronak Desai, Fremont, CA (US);
Ankur Goyal, San Jose, CA (US);
Tejas Kokje, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Prashanth Pappu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ronak Desai, Fremont, CA (US);
Ankur Goyal, San Jose, CA (US);
Tejas Kokje, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, the convergence node switches of a destination node switch in a network having multiple equal paths between a source switch and destination switch are identified. When a new equal cost path is added to the network, packets are flushed up to the convergence node switch closest to the source switch.