公开(公告)号：US20170288970A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15083732

申请日：2016-03-29

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Wen Lin ,  John E. Drake ,  Sunil Kumar Malali ,  Kapil Arora ,  Vikram Nagarajan

IPC: H04L12/24

CPC classification number: H04L41/12 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/4625 ,  H04L45/02 ,  H04L45/54 ,  H04L45/64 ,  H04L45/66 ,  H04L61/2084 ,  H04L61/6004 ,  H04L61/6022

Abstract: The techniques described are directed to providing mass withdrawal of media access control (MAC) routes for network devices in an Ethernet virtual private network data center interconnect (EVPN DCI). MAC routes to reach the learned MAC addresses are stored in routing tables with corresponding top-of-rack Ethernet segment identifier (TOR-ESI) values that represent the Ethernet segments from where the MAC addresses were learned. A provider edge (PE) network device may configure and advertise a virtual Ethernet segment identifier (vESI) that includes a plurality of TOR-ESI values. As Ethernet segments of the data center become unavailable, the corresponding TOR-ESI values may be withdrawn from the vESI to form an updated vESI. In this way, MAC routes having a TOR-ESI value that was withdrawn from the vESI may be removed from the routing tables in each of the network devices.

公开(公告)号：US20170288948A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15085533

申请日：2016-03-30

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Tapraj Singh ,  Wen Lin ,  SelvaKumar Sivaraj ,  Rukesh Dorai ,  Sunesh Rustagi

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/703 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/723 ,  H04L12/741

Abstract: Techniques are described for avoiding traffic black-holing in a multi-homed Ethernet virtual private networks (EVPNs) in which a customer device (CE) is multi-homed to a plurality of multi-homing provider edge devices (PEs) via respective links of an Ethernet segment. An overlay network is created over the Ethernet segment, and the multi-homing PEs of the EVPN are configured with a common anycast IP address for respective virtual network interfaces. Upon election as active designated forwarder (DF) for the EVPN, the DF PE of the multi-homing PEs advertises toward the customer network an IGP metric for the anycast IP address that is lower than the IGP metric(s) advertised by any of the non-DF standby PE routers segment to direct the CE to forward network packets from the customer network to the DF PE over the respective link of the Ethernet segment.

公开(公告)号：US20250007834A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18372088

申请日：2023-09-23

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Wen Lin ,  Kevin Wang ,  Kireeti Kompella

IPC: H04L45/745 ,  H04L45/02 ,  H04L45/586

Abstract: Different services through Virtual Routing and Forwarding instances (VRFs) are identified without needing a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) label or a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) Network Identifier (VNI) by using, for example, different UDP port numbers to identify different connectivity services (e.g., customers, VRFs) when IP-in-IP (also referred to as IP over UDP) is used as a tunneling mechanism (e.g., in the data center).

公开(公告)号：US20240113969A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-04

申请号：US18538600

申请日：2023-12-13

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Wen Lin ,  Manish Gupta ,  Shivakumar Channalli ,  Vinay K. Nallamothu

IPC: H04L45/745 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L49/25

CPC classification number: H04L45/745 ,  H04L12/4633 ,  H04L12/4641 ,  H04L49/25

Abstract: Techniques for EVPN Host Routed Bridging (HRB) and EVPN cloud-native data center with Host Routed Bridging (HRB) are described. A host computing device of a data center includes one or more containerized user-level applications. A cloud native virtual router is configured for dynamic deployment by the data center application orchestration engine and operable in a user space of the host computing device. Processing circuitry is configured for execution of the containerized user-level applications and the cloud native virtual router. The cloud native virtual router comprises a containerized routing protocol process configured to operate as a control plane, and a data plane for the containerized router. The data plane is configured to operate an ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) encapsulation/decapsulation data path of an overlay network for communicating layer two (L2) network traffic of the containerized user applications over a switch fabric of the data center.

公开(公告)号：US11546253B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-03

申请号：US17301351

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Wen Lin ,  Yi Zheng ,  Mukesh Kumar ,  Xichun Hong ,  SelvaKumar Sivaraj ,  Vamshi Krishna Voruganti ,  John E. Drake

IPC: H04L45/28 ,  H04L41/0668 ,  H04L12/46

Abstract: Techniques are described for providing fast reroute for traffic in EVPN-VXLAN. For example, a backup PE device of an Ethernet segment is configured with an additional tunnel endpoint address (“reroute tunnel endpoint address”) for a backup path associated with a second split-horizon group that is different than a tunnel endpoint address and first split-horizon group for another path used for normal traffic forwarding. The backup PE device sends the reroute tunnel endpoint address to a primary PE device of the Ethernet segment, which uses the reroute tunnel endpoint address to configure a backup path to the backup PE device over the core network. For example, the primary PE device may install the reroute tunnel endpoint address within its forwarding plane and one or more operations to cause the primary PE device to encapsulate a VXLAN header including the reroute tunnel endpoint address when rerouting the packet along the backup path.

公开(公告)号：US11057295B1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-06

申请号：US16777526

申请日：2020-01-30

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Wen Lin ,  Yi Zheng ,  SelvaKumar Sivaraj ,  Vasudevan Venkatraman ,  Prabhu Raj V. K. ,  Channasangamesh S. Hugar

IPC: H04L12/729 ,  H04L12/707 ,  H04L12/723 ,  H04L12/717 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: The problem of looping at the egress of a transport network with a CE multihomed to a protected egress PE and a backup/protector egress PE can be avoided by (a) enabling the protector egress PE to distinguish between fast reroute (FRR) traffic coming from the protected egress PE and normal known unicast (KU) traffic coming from a PE of the transport network that is not attached to the same multihomed segment; (b) receiving, by the protector egress PE, known unicast data, to be forwarded to the CE; (c) determining, by the protector egress PE, that a link between it and the CE is unavailable; and (d) responsive to determining that the link between the protector egress PE and the CE is unavailable, (1) determining whether the known unicast traffic received was sent from the protected egress PE or from another PE of the transport network that is not attached to the same multihomed segment, and (2) responsive to a determination that the known unicast traffic received was sent from the protected egress PE, discarding the known unicast traffic received, and otherwise, responsive to a determination that the known unicast (KU) traffic received was sent from another PE of the transport network that is not attached to the same multihomed segment, sending the known unicast traffic, via a backup tunnel, to an egress PE which protects the protector egress PE.

公开(公告)号：US20200287780A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-10

申请号：US16881507

申请日：2020-05-22

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Tapraj Singh ,  Wen Lin ,  SelvaKumar Sivaraj ,  Rukesh Dorai ,  Sunesh Rustagi

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/723 ,  H04L12/741 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/703 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/707 ,  H04L12/26

Abstract: Techniques are described for avoiding traffic black-holing in a multi-homed Ethernet virtual private networks (EVPNs) in which a customer device (CE) is multi-homed to a plurality of multi-homing provider edge devices (PEs) via respective links of an Ethernet segment. An overlay network is created over the Ethernet segment, and the multi-homing PEs of the EVPN are configured with a common anycast IP address for respective virtual network interfaces. Upon election as active designated forwarder (DF) for the EVPN, the DF PE of the multi-homing PEs advertises toward the customer network an IGP metric for the anycast IP address that is lower than the IGP metric(s) advertised by any of the non-DF standby PE routers segment to direct the CE to forward network packets from the customer network to the DF PE over the respective link of the Ethernet segment.

公开(公告)号：US10742542B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US16166731

申请日：2018-10-22

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Wen Lin ,  Sharmila Koppula ,  Soumyodeep Joarder

IPC: H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/709 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/801

Abstract: A device may determine a link aggregation group (LAG) that aggregates links that includes a first group of links that connects the device to a first provider edge (PE) device and a second group of links that connects the device to the second PE device, where the first PE device and the second PE device are on an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) and are multi-homed PE devices for the device, and where the first PE device provides a local connection to a customer edge (CE) device for the device. The device may receive a message from the first PE device indicating that the first PE device lacks a connection with the EVPN, and may send, based on the message, traffic intended for the CE device via the first PE device and traffic intended for the EVPN via the second PE device and not the first PE device.

公开(公告)号：US10693679B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-23

申请号：US16127101

申请日：2018-09-10

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Wen Lin ,  Pankaj Kumar Gupta ,  Babu Singarayan ,  Sharmila Koppula ,  Manish Gupta ,  Kapil Arora

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/703 ,  H04L12/709 ,  H04L12/723 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/721

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) network with service interface-aware forwarding. In one example, a first network device signals to a second network device, using EVPN route advertisements, a multi-service service tunnel to transport network packets for a plurality of services. The services are identifiable by virtual local area network (VLAN) identifiers in the packets. The first network device is configured with a single transport interface for the service tunnel and the single transport interface is configured with respective service interfaces for the services. The first network device detects failure of a failed service interface of the service interfaces and outputs, in response to the failure, an EVPN route withdrawal message for the service tunnel that identifies the service corresponding to the failed service interface.

公开(公告)号：US20200127917A1

公开(公告)日：2020-04-23

申请号：US16166731

申请日：2018-10-22

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Wen Lin ,  Sharmila Koppula ,  Soumyodeep Joarder

IPC: H04L12/709 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/46

Abstract: A device may determine a link aggregation group (LAG) that aggregates links that includes a first group of links that connects the device to a first provider edge (PE) device and a second group of links that connects the device to the second PE device, where the first PE device and the second PE device are on an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) and are multi-homed PE devices for the device, and where the first PE device provides a local connection to a customer edge (CE) device for the device. The device may receive a message from the first PE device indicating that the first PE device lacks a connection with the EVPN, and may send, based on the message, traffic intended for the CE device via the first PE device and traffic intended for the EVPN via the second PE device and not the first PE device.