Techniques for optimizing egress tunnel router failure scenarios in intelligent wide area networks

One or more non-transitory tangible media that include code for execution and when executed by a processor is operable to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at a first network node, traffic from a second network node via a first network that is a Location Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP)-enabled network;
• and
• in response to receiving the traffic, generating and sending, by the first network node to a third network node, a first update including information identifying the second network node, wherein the first and third network nodes are egress tunnel routers that are peer nodes interconnected via a Local Area Network (“LAN”) connection different from the first network and wherein the information identifying the second network node is sent from the first network node to the third network node via the LAN connection,
• wherein subsequent to receipt of the information identifying the second network node, the third network node updates a locator table configured using the LISP that is maintained by the third network node to include an entry corresponding to the second network node, wherein the entry includes the information identifying the second network node received by the third network node from the first network node, and
• wherein based on receipt by the third network node via the LAN connection of a notification that the first network node has failed, the third network node sends a second update, via the first network, only to network nodes, including the second network node, that have a corresponding table entry in the locator table indicating that the first network node has failed and to cease communication therewith.

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory element configured to store data;
• and
• a processor operable to execute instructions associated with the data;
• the processor configured for:
• receiving, at a first network node, traffic from a second network node via a first network at a Location Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP)-enabled network;
• and
• in response to receiving the traffic, generating and sending, by the first network node to a third network node, a first update including information identifying the second network node, wherein the first and third network nodes are egress tunnel routers that are peer nodes interconnected via a Local Area Network (“LAN”) connection different from the first network and wherein the information identifying the second network node is sent from the first network node to the third network node via the LAN connection,
• wherein subsequent to receipt of the information identifying the second network node, the third network node updates a locator table configured using the LISP that is maintained by the third network node to include an entry corresponding to the second network node, wherein the entry includes the information identifying the second network node received by the third network node from the first network node, and
• wherein based on receipt by the third network node via the LAN connection of a notification that the first network node has failed, the third network node sends a second update, via the first network, only to network nodes, including the second network node, that have a corresponding table entry in the locator table indicating that the first network node has failed and to cease communication therewith.