Patent ID: 11929849
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A system associated with a gateway node that facilitates communications between a first network and a second network, the system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause gateway node to perform operations comprising:
receiving a gateway preference order associated with a route advertised by an edge node, the edge node associated with the first network;
determining, based at least in part on the gateway preference order, that the gateway node is a more preferred gateway for the route than another gateway node;
converting the gateway preference order into a metric associated with an IP routing protocol that is in use in the second network; and
distributing the route including the metric to the second network such that the gateway node is the more preferred gateway for return traffic of the route.