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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
David D. Ward, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Stewart F. Bryant, Redhill, GB;
Daniel C. Frost, Feltham, GB;
Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US);
Carlos M. Pignataro, Raleigh, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium are disclosed. In one embodiment of the method, a packet and a segment ID stack is received at a first segment routing enabled node. The segment ID stack includes a plurality of segment IDs, one or which is a first area-segment ID that identifies a first area of a subdivided segment routing network. An egress interface of the first segment routing enabled node is selected based on the first area-segment ID. Thereafter, the packet is forwarded via the selected egress interface.