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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2014
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Amr Sabaa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Muhammad Durrani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mukhtiar Shaikh, San Jose, CA (US);
Prasad P. Jogalekar, San Jose, CA (US);
Jayanthi Jayaraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Arunkaruppaiya Adaikalam, Milpitas, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a fabric switch module and a learning module. The fabric switch module maintains a membership in a first fabric switch. A fabric switch includes a plurality of switches and operates as a single switch. The first fabric switch is in an extended fabric switch which further comprises a second fabric switch. The learning module identifies from a notification message from the second fabric switch a media access control (MAC) address learned at the second fabric switch. The learning module stores the MAC address in a local MAC table in association with an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the second fabric switch.