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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2015
Iphotonix, Richardson, TX (US);
Lance Arnold Visser, Dallas, TX (US);
iPhotonix, Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
Dual-homed forwarding techniques ensure that packets destined for a private network location are forwarded directly to the private network. Host devices adapted for dual-homed forwarding techniques may first search a forwarding table to identify an outgoing interface associated with a packet's destination address, and then search an egress table to identify an entry associated with the outgoing interface. The identified entry in the egress table indicates whether the outgoing interface is a remote interface, and if so, a dual-homing identifier associated with the outgoing interface. If so, the host device searches the forwarding table a second time to determine whether any local interfaces are associated with the dual-homing identifier. The packet is then forwarded either over the local outgoing interface associated with the dual-homing identifier or the originally identified outgoing interface.