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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Keyur Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Serpil Bayraktar, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Manish Bhardwaj, San Francisco, CA (US);
David D. Ward, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Arjun Sreekantiah, San Jose, CA (US);
Burjiz Pithawala, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network includes a route reflector peered with client routers. From a perspective of the route reflector, a best path to the destination address is selected by applying to candidate paths ordered comparison tests that progress from policy tests through one or more additional tests until the best path is selected. A determination is made as to whether the best path was selected based on the policy tests exclusively. If the best path was selected based on the policy tests exclusively, the best path is assigned to each of the client routers. If the best path was not selected based on the policy tests exclusively, from a perspective of each client router, a respective best path is selected by applying to the candidate paths the one or more additional tests, and the respective best paths are assigned to the respective client routers.