Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for steering bidirectional network traffic to a same service device
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Application No.: US15721505Application Date: 2017-09-29
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Publication No.: US10721651B2Publication Date: 2020-07-21
- Inventor: Anuraag Mittal , Aparna Sushrut Karanjkar , Nitin Ravindra Karkhanis
- Applicant: Arista Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry
- Main IPC: H04W28/08
- IPC: H04W28/08 ; H04W40/24 ; H04W99/00 ; H04W48/18 ; H04W76/10 ; H04L12/743 ; H04L12/931 ; H04L12/721

Abstract:
A method and system for steering bidirectional network traffic to a same service device. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail the maintaining and synchronization of link aggregation group (LAG) tables tied to a pair of LAG ports instantiated on a network element directly connected to a pair of peer linking service devices. Network traffic (i.e., MAC frames) arriving at the network element, from a first host and intended for a second host (e.g., indicative of a first direction of the network traffic), may be steered towards one of the pair of service devices based on hashing of information included in a received MAC frame in conjunction with the LAG table tied to the LAG port (of the pair of LAG ports) that which received the MAC frame.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190104438A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STEERING BIDIRECTIONAL NETWORK TRAFFIC TO A SAME SERVICE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-04-04
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