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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
May. 02, 2011
Keyur Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Raszuk, Warsaw, PL;
Ryan Bickhart, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alton Lo, Fremont, CA (US);
Keyur Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Raszuk, Warsaw, PL;
Ryan Bickhart, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alton Lo, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, at a data packet router, a path advertisement comprising information about an available path; determining whether the path advertisement comprises an originator identifier of an originator of the available path; in response to determining that the path advertisement comprises the originator identifier of the originator of the available path, determining whether the originator identifier of the available path is a router identifier of the data packet router, and in response to determining that the originator identifier of the available path is the router identifier of the data packet router, not accepting the path advertisement; wherein the method is performed by one or more processors of the data packet router.