Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Operations, administration and management (OAM) in overlay data center environments
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Application No.: US15711812Application Date: 2017-09-21
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Publication No.: US10116559B2Publication Date: 2018-10-30
- Inventor: Shyam Kapadia , Liqin Dong , Yibin Yang
- 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: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: H04L12/715
- IPC: H04L12/715 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L12/741

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for OAM in overlay networks. In response to receiving a packet associated with an OAM operation from a device in an overlay network, the system generates an OAM packet. The system can be coupled with the overlay network and can include a tunnel endpoint interface associated with an underlay address and a virtual interface associated with an overlay address. The overlay address can be an anycast address assigned to the system and another device in the overlay network. Next, the system determines that a destination address associated with the packet is not reachable through the virtual interface, the destination address corresponding to a destination node in the overlay network. The system also determines that the destination address is reachable through the tunnel endpoint interface. The system then provides the underlay address associated with the tunnel endpoint interface as a source address in the OAM packet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180013670A1 OPERATIONS, ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT (OAM) IN OVERLAY DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENTS Public/Granted day:2018-01-11
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