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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
May. 27, 2015
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Siva Narayanan, San Jose, CA (US);
Akshay Gattani, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ian McCloghrie, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Arista Netwroks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for initializing the border gateway protocol (BGP) on network devices. The method includes predicting, by the network device, using a set of prediction heuristics, a first possible internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) address of a first peer network device. The method further includes sending, by the network device, a first neighbor discovery protocol (NDP) request for the first possible IPv6 address, and receiving, by the network device, from the first peer network device, in response to the NDP request, a first media access control (MAC) address. The method also includes establishing, after receiving the first MAC address, a BGP session with the first peer network device and exchanging route updates with the first peer network device, and processing a packet. The processing of the packet is delayed until the first MAC address is received.