Modifying an address to forward a packet to a service function
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsPaul Bottorff, Donald Fedyk
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Abstract
Some examples herein disclose identifying a service function chain based on a switch address from a packet. The examples disclose modifying the switch address to an address corresponding to a service function based on the identified service function chain. The examples also disclose forwarding the packet to the service function according to the modified switch address.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- a networking component to:
- identify a service function chain based on a switch address from a packet;
- modify the switch address from the packet to an address corresponding to a service function, the service function is a segment within the service function chain;
- and
- a port coupled to the networking component to forward the packet to the service function based on the modified switch address.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a processing resource cause a computing device to:
- identify a service function chain based on a layer two (L2) portion of a packet;
- modify a destination address on the L2 portion of the packet based on the identified service function chain, the modified destination address corresponds to an address of a service function and the service function is a segment within the service function chain;
- and
- forward the packet to the service function corresponding to the modified destination address.
A method, executable by a networking component, the method comprising:
- identifying a service function chain based on a switch address from a packet;
- modifying the switch address to an address corresponding to a service function based on the identified service function chain, the service function is a segment within the identified service function chain;
- and
- forwarding the packet to the service function according to the modified switch address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.