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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Samar Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Mitali Parthasarathy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Avni Baveja, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashish Purushottam Attarde, San Jose, CA (US);
Biju Mathews Mammen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, service appliance, and non-transitory media for establishing connections to virtual device contexts (VDCs) whereby a communication channel for each of the VDCs is identified based on connection data corresponding to each of the VDCs. A service appliance receives, from each of one or more VDCs located on a switch, a message containing connection data that identifies at least one communication channel between the service appliance and a corresponding one of the one or more VDCs from which the message was received. The connection data is stored in a memory accessible to the service appliance. The service appliance identifies a communication channel for each of a plurality of VDCs based on the connection data and an identifier corresponding to each of the plurality of VDCs. The service appliance establishes a connection to each of the plurality of VDCs using the communication channel for each of the plurality of VDCs.