Split-horizon packet forwarding in a multi-home PBB-EVPN network

    公开(公告)号:US10148566B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-04

    申请号:US15055061

    申请日:2016-02-26

    Abstract: Techniques are described to provide split-horizon packet forwarding so as to ensure that packets from the customer network that are injected into the provider backbone bridging Ethernet Virtual Private Network (PBB-EVPN) by one of the provider edge (PE) devices of the multi-homed Ethernet segment are not forwarded back toward the customer network by a different PE device connected to the same multi-homed Ethernet segment. For example, a method may comprise receiving a packet via a core-facing interface of a first PE device, determining the Ethernet segment associated with the PE devices by a lookup operation based on keys of the packet; in response to determining the Ethernet segment, supplanting the core-facing interface of the first PE device with a virtual interface associated with the keys, and forwarding the packet to a second CE device without forwarding the received packet back to the Ethernet segment associated with the first PE device.

    SPLIT-HORIZON PACKET FORWARDING IN A MULTI-HOME PBB-EVPN NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20170250904A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-31

    申请号:US15055061

    申请日:2016-02-26

    CPC classification number: H04L45/66 H04L12/4641 H04L45/22

    Abstract: Techniques are described to provide split-horizon packet forwarding so as to ensure that packets from the customer network that are injected into the provider backbone bridging Ethernet Virtual Private Network (PBB-EVPN) by one of the provider edge (PE) devices of the multi-homed Ethernet segment are not forwarded back toward the customer network by a different PE device connected to the same multi-homed Ethernet segment. For example, a method may comprise receiving a packet via a core-facing interface of a first PE device, determining the Ethernet segment associated with the PE devices by a lookup operation based on keys of the packet; in response to determining the Ethernet segment, supplanting the core-facing interface of the first PE device with a virtual interface associated with the keys, and forwarding the packet to a second CE device without forwarding the received packet back to the Ethernet segment associated with the first PE device.

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