Invention Grant
US09306837B1 Source IP-based pruning of traffic toward dually-connected overlay hosts in a data communications environment
有权
来源于基于IP的数据通信环境中双向连接的重叠主机的流量修剪
- Patent Title: Source IP-based pruning of traffic toward dually-connected overlay hosts in a data communications environment
- Patent Title (中): 来源于基于IP的数据通信环境中双向连接的重叠主机的流量修剪
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Application No.: US13789990Application Date: 2013-03-08
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Publication No.: US09306837B1Publication Date: 2016-04-05
- Inventor: Vipin Jain , Ashutosh Agrawal , Deepa Seshadri
- 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: Patent Capital Group
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04L12/761
Abstract:
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes determining a source of a packet received at a network element and characterizing a link on which the packet was received. The method further includes forwarding the packet to an overlay network and locally connected hosts other than a source of the packet if the source of the packet is a local host and the link is a local link; forwarding the packet to hosts that are not dually-connected to the network element if the source of the packet is the local host and the link is a core link; and forwarding the packet as indicated in a multicast tree if the source of the packet is a non-local host and the link is a core link.
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