Engines to prune overlay network traffic
US10218604B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 19, 2015 |
| Grant date | Feb 26, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 19, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2212/00
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An example system in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes an inspection engine and a forwarding engine. The inspection engine is to identify whether a tunneled network packet is associated with the multicast group address and a VNI that is contained in the mapping table. The forwarding engine is to forward or discard the packet in response to whether the VNI is contained in the mapping table.
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