Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Extended subnets
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Application No.: US12460614Application Date: 2009-07-21
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Publication No.: US08532116B2Publication Date: 2013-09-10
- Inventor: Maurizio Portolani , Christian Elsen
- Applicant: Maurizio Portolani , Christian Elsen
- 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: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04L12/56 ; H04L12/46 ; G06F9/50

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
- US20110019676A1 Extended subnets Public/Granted day:2011-01-27
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