Managing administrative statuses of hardware VTEPs
US10230576B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 16, 2016 |
| Grant date | Mar 12, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 1, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/145
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a novel method for a network control system (or controllers of the network control system) to manage a set of hardware Virtual Tunnel End Points (VTEPs) used to implement a logical network. Many network devices or entities (such as interfaces or transport nodes) have a functionality to mark the device or entity as “administratively down”. In that mode, such a device does not participate in any further forwarding in the dataplane, until it is marked as administratively up. This feature is often used to troubleshoot networks, and/or to remove misbehaving or faulty devices.
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