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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2012
Mythilikanth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Mary Manohar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Phanidhar Koganti, Sunnvale, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Shunjia Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Pankaj Srivastava, San Jose, CA (US);
Mythilikanth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Mary Manohar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Phanidhar Koganti, Sunnvale, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Shunjia Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Pankaj Srivastava, San Jose, CA (US);
Brocade Communication Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a storage and a lookup mechanism. The storage stores a first table that contains an entry corresponding to a media access control (MAC) address of a device and an identifier of a remote switch associated with the device. The storage also stores a second table that contains an entry indicating a local outgoing interface corresponding to the remote switch. The lookup mechanism identifies the local outgoing interface corresponding to the device based on the first table and the second table.