Network management system control service for vxlan on an mlag domain
AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorChandrashekhar Appanna
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Abstract
Various embodiments are described herein that provide a network system comprising a first network element coupled to a network and a second network element directly coupled to the first network element. The first network element and the second network element are to connect to form a link aggregation group. The system additionally includes a network management device including a control agent, where the control agent is configured to configure the link aggregation group as a logical virtual tunnel end point (VTEP) of a virtual local area network (VLAN).
Claims20
A network system comprising:
- a first network element coupled to a network;
- a second network element directly coupled to the first network element, wherein the first network element and the second network element are to connect to form a link aggregation group;
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- a network management device including a control agent, the control agent to configure the link aggregation group as a logical virtual tunnel end point (VTEP) of a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN).
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of a network device, cause the network device to perform operations comprising:
- establishing a communication link with multiple network elements within a link aggregation domain, each network element within the link aggregation domain having a virtual tunnel endpoint (VTEP) with an identical identifier;
- configuring a logical VTEP including each VTEP within the link aggregation domain having the identical identifier;
- identifying a network element within the link aggregation domain that has been designated as a primary network element;
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- providing configuration information for the multiple network elements to the primary network element after the primary network element is identified.
A network element comprising:
- a control plane including one or more processors and memory, wherein the control plane is to configure the network element as a member of a multi-chassis link aggregation group (MLAG) domain under management of an VLAN control agent external to the network element;
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- a data plane coupled to the control plane, the data plane including a network interface having a peer port and non-peer port, the peer port to couple to an additional member of the MLAG domain and the non-peer port coupled to an external device, wherein the data plane is to receive network data from the VLAN control agent, the network data including configuration information for a logical virtual tunnel endpoint (VTEP) associated with a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) and transmit at least a portion of the configuration information to the additional member of the MLAG domain via the peer port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.