- 专利标题: Communicating packets across multi-domain networks using compact forwarding instructions
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申请号: US17404817申请日: 2021-08-17
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公开(公告)号: US11611505B2公开(公告)日: 2023-03-21
- 发明人: Clarence Filsfils , Francois Clad , Zafar Ali , Peter Psenak
- 申请人: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- 申请人地址: US CA San Jose
- 专利权人: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA San Jose
- 代理机构: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- 主分类号: H04L12/721
- IPC分类号: H04L12/721 ; H04L45/00 ; H04L69/22 ; H04L45/02
摘要:
Techniques and mechanisms for compressing the size of SIDs to be smaller than a complete IPv6 address (or “micro SIDs”), and scaling micro SIDs across a multi-domain environment using micro SID-domain-blocks. Segment routing over IPv6 (SRv6) uses 128-bit IPv6 addresses as SIDs for segment routing. According to this disclosure, multiple SRv6 SIDs may be expressed in a compact format such that a 128-bit IPv6 address, such as the destination address field of the IPv6 header, may store multiple micro SIDs. Further, SID-domain-blocks may be assigned to each domain in a multi-domain network such that micro SIDs may be expressed in the context of a given domain, rather than being shared in the global multi-domain network. In this way, lists of domain-specific SIDs may be fully expressed in the IPv6 destination address of the packet to scale micro SID into large, multi-domain networks.
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