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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Liqin Dong, San Jose, CA (US);
Yibin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Di Jin, Fremont, CA (US);
Xinggang Zhou, Fremont, CA (US);
Siu-Man Leung, Fremont, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes acquiring at a local network element information regarding a remote network element via a control protocol distribution method and refraining from instantiating the remote VTEP for the remote network element on the local network element until unicast traffic from the local network element to the remote network element via an overlay network has begun. The method may further include detecting unicast traffic from the local network element to the remote network element and subsequent to the detecting, instantiating the remote VTEP for the remote network element on the local network element. Some embodiments may include detecting cessation of the unicast traffic from the local network element to the remote network element and subsequent to the detecting cessation, uninstantiating the remote VTEP for the remote network element from the local network element.
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