Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Extended subnets
- Patent Title (中): 扩展子网
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Application No.: US14021402Application Date: 2013-09-09
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Publication No.: US09100350B2Publication Date: 2015-08-04
- Inventor: Maurizio Portolani , Christian Elsen
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H04L12/701
- IPC: H04L12/701 ; H04L12/741 ; H04L12/713 ; H04L12/721 ; G06F9/50 ; H04L12/46

Abstract:
There is provided a router for use in a datacenter, the router including a frame receiving module operative to receive a traffic frame and a frame forwarding module operative to forward the traffic frame to a second router in a second datacenter if a Destination Media Access Control (DMAC) address included in the traffic frame is different from all of the following: a Burned in Address of the router; a Burned in Address of at least one server associated with the router; a Media Access Control (MAC) address of one of a Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) group and a Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) group of the router; and a MAC address of one of a HSRP group and a VRRP group of a subnet hosted by the router.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140016642A1 Extended Subnets Public/Granted day:2014-01-16
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