Packet forwarding
US10313274B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 4, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jun 4, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 4, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2212/00
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
I/O board of VXLAN switch removes first VXLAN encapsulation from a packet, determines to perform layer 3 forwarding for the packet and sends the packet to a fabric board of the VXLAN switch. The fabric board searches out a layer 3 entry matching a destination IP address of the packet from a local layer 3 table, modifies a source MAC address of the packet into a gateway MAC address of the VXLAN switch, modifies a destination MAC address of the packet into a destination MAC address in the layer 3 entry, and when an egress port in the layer 3 entry is a VXLAN tunnel port, sends the modified packet to an I/O board associated with the egress port in the layer 3 entry. The I/O board associated with the egress port receives the packet, adds second VXLAN encapsulation to the packet and forwards the packet to a VXLAN.
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