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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2012
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Yaonan Liang, San Carlos, CA (US);
Chengelpet V. Ramesh, San Jose, CA (US);
Ganesh P. Murthy, San Diego, CA (US);
Ming Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajesh B. Nataraja, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a server, flow data for a plurality of flows at a network device, the flow data comprising for each flow, a destination address and a time indicating when a last packet was processed for the flow at the server, updating a flow table at the network device, identifying one of the flows in the flow table as an inactive flow, and removing a route for the inactive flow from a forwarding information base at the network device. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.