LEAF-TO-SPINE UPLINK BANDWIDTH ADVERTISEMENT TO LEAF-CONNECTED SERVERS

    公开(公告)号:US20190123961A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-25

    申请号:US15789447

    申请日:2017-10-20

    Inventor: Donald Fedyk

    Abstract: A system includes spine network switching devices, leaf network switching devices, and server computing devices. The leaf network switching devices are not connected to one another. Each leaf network switching device is connected to each spine network switching device. Each server computing device is connected to each leaf network switching device. Each leaf network switching device transmits an advertisement indicating uplink bandwidth to each spine network device. Each server computing device distributes network traffic through the leaf network switching devices to the spine network switching devices based on the uplink bandwidth that the leaf network switching devices advertise.

    Filter tables for management functions

    公开(公告)号:US10097402B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-09

    申请号:US15152306

    申请日:2016-05-11

    Abstract: In accordance with examples disclosed herein, a filter table for Media Access Control (MAC) chaining contains mappings between signature addresses, service functions, and management functions, to identify corresponding service function chains. The filter table is to store statistic information about the packet. A controller is to uniquely identify a management function corresponding to the signature address, and modify tables of packet signature addresses usable to modify the packet to cause the packet to be forwarded to the management function. The controller is to update the statistic information about the packet.

    GROUP-BASED POLICY MULTICAST FORWARDING

    公开(公告)号:US20210044445A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-11

    申请号:US16535960

    申请日:2019-08-08

    Abstract: A method includes receiving a data packet from a source endpoint included within a source endpoint group identified by a source endpoint group policy identifier, where the data packet includes a first multicast address. The method also includes transforming the data packet into a transformed data packet that includes a second multicast address constructed using the source endpoint group policy identifier and a multicast index that specifies a multicast forwarding policy between the source endpoint group and one or more destination endpoint groups identified by one or more destination endpoint group policy identifiers. The method further includes forwarding the transformed data packet toward one or more destination endpoints included within the one or more destination endpoint groups, with the forwarding being based on the second multicast address. The data packet may be routed using a forwarding path based on a multicast forwarding tree constructed for the second multicast address.

    Leaf-to-spine uplink bandwidth advertisement to leaf-connected servers

    公开(公告)号:US10447601B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-15

    申请号:US15789447

    申请日:2017-10-20

    Inventor: Donald Fedyk

    Abstract: A system includes spine network switching devices, leaf network switching devices, and server computing devices. The leaf network switching devices are not connected to one another. Each leaf network switching device is connected to each spine network switching device. Each server computing device is connected to each leaf network switching device. Each leaf network switching device transmits an advertisement indicating uplink bandwidth to each spine network device. Each server computing device distributes network traffic through the leaf network switching devices to the spine network switching devices based on the uplink bandwidth that the leaf network switching devices advertise.

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