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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2013
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Maurizio Portolani, Rolle, CH;
Christian Elsen, Rolle, CH;
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/701 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/713 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/74 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/00 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 45/66 (2013.01); H04L 2212/0025 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a router for use in a datacenter, the router including a frame receiving module operative to receive a traffic frame and a frame forwarding module operative to forward the traffic frame to a second router in a second datacenter if a Destination Media Access Control (DMAC) address included in the traffic frame is different from all of the following: