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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2014
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yafan An, Fremont, CA (US);
Sandeep Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gunes Aybay, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rakesh Dubey, Fremont, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A node is configured to receive a packet from a host device, where the packet includes a source address associated with the host device; determine that the source address is not stored by the node; generate one or more logical distances, associated with one or more nodes, based on the source address and a respective address associated with each of the nodes; determine that another node is associated with a shortest logical distance, of the one or more logical distances; and transmit the source address to the other node based on the determination that the other node is associated with the shortest logical distance, where transmitting the source address allows the other node to store the source address or enables further nodes to obtain the source address from the other node.