Detecting and communicating with silent hosts in software-defined networks

    公开(公告)号:US11316782B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-26

    申请号:US16864402

    申请日:2020-05-01

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for discovering silent hosts in a software-defined network and directing traffic to the silent hosts in a scalable and targeted manner include determining interfaces of a fabric device that are connected to respective one or more endpoints, where the fabric device is configured to connect the endpoints to a network fabric of the software-defined network. At least a first interface is identified, where an address of a first endpoint connected to the first interface is not available at the fabric device. A first notification is transmitted to a control plane of the software-defined network based on identifying the first interface, where the control plane may create a flood list which includes the fabric device. Traffic intended for the first endpoint from the network fabric is received by the fabric device can be based on the flood list.

    COMMUNICATION OF POLICY CHANGES IN LISP-BASED SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20220006738A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-06

    申请号:US17476462

    申请日:2021-09-15

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for communicating policy changes in a Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) based network deployment include receiving, at a first routing device, a first notification from a map server, the first notification indicating a change in a policy for LISP based communication between at least a first endpoint device and at least a second endpoint device, the first endpoint device being connected to a network fabric through the first routing device and the second endpoint device being connected to the network fabric through a second routing device. The first routing device forwards a second notification to the second routing device if one or more entries of a first map cache implemented by the first routing device are affected by the policy change, the second notification indicating a set of one or more endpoints connected to the second routing device that are affected by the policy change.

    SOFTWARE DEFINED ACCESS FABRIC WITHOUT SUBNET RESTRICTION TO A VIRTUAL NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20210344565A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US17377378

    申请日:2021-07-16

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for provisioning a common subnet across a number of subscribers and their respective virtual networks using dynamically generated network policies that provide isolation between the subscribers. The dynamic generation of the network policies is performed when a host (e.g. client) is detected (via a switch) as the host joins the computing network via virtual networks. This ability to configure a common subnet for all the subscriber virtual networks allows these subscribers to more easily access external shared services coming from a headquarter site while keeping the separation and segmentation of multiple subscriber virtual networks within a single subnet. This allows the Enterprise fabric to be more simple and convenient to deploy without making security compromises.

    DETECTING AND COMMUNICATING WITH SILENT HOSTS IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20210344591A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US16864402

    申请日:2020-05-01

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for discovering silent hosts in a software-defined network and directing traffic to the silent hosts in a scalable and targeted manner include determining interfaces of a fabric device that are connected to respective one or more endpoints, where the fabric device is configured to connect the endpoints to a network fabric of the software-defined network. At least a first interface is identified, where an address of a first endpoint connected to the first interface is not available at the fabric device. A first notification is transmitted to a control plane of the software-defined network based on identifying the first interface, where the control plane may create a flood list which includes the fabric device. Traffic intended for the first endpoint from the network fabric is received by the fabric device can be based on the flood list.

    Horizontal Scaling of Fabric Networks
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190132209A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US15912839

    申请日:2018-03-06

    Abstract: A method for establishing a partitioned fabric network is described. The method includes establishing a fabric network including a plurality of border nodes to couple the fabric network to one or more external data networks and a plurality of edge nodes to couple to the fabric network to one or more hosts. The method further includes defining a plurality of partitions of the fabric network. The method further includes registering each of the plurality of partitions with a corresponding one of the plurality of border nodes and with each of the plurality of edge nodes.

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