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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2011
Karthik Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Dheerendra Talur, San Ramon, CA (US);
Pradosh Mohapatra, Fremont, CA (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Karthik Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Dheerendra Talur, San Ramon, CA (US);
Pradosh Mohapatra, Fremont, CA (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a packet switching device assigns a same particular packet switching label to each particular route of a plurality of particular routes having the same one or more best paths, wherein the plurality of particular routes includes routes from at least two different forwarding groups. A forwarding group is defined as a specific route, one or more routes associated with a same customer edge router, or one or more routes associated with a single virtual routing and forwarding domain (VRF). The packet switching device advertises to other packet switching device(s) to add this same particular label to packets having one of the plurality of particular routes, which they do. The packet switching device then packet switches packets based on the particular label received in a label field in a header of these packets.