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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2010
Zhunian Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steven V. Luong, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish Bhardwaj, San Jose, CA (US);
Stefano Previdi, Rome, IT;
Zhunian Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steven V. Luong, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish Bhardwaj, San Jose, CA (US);
Stefano Previdi, Rome, IT;
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a first network device may receive a request for an identifier of at least one target to service a client. The first network device may obtain an identifier of each of two or more targets. The first network device may then determine whether to redirect the request. The first network device may redirect the request to a second network device according to a result of the determining step, where the first network device is in a first autonomous system and the second network device is in a second autonomous system.