Patent ID: 11956214
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for enforcing media access control (MAC) learning limits (MLLs), the method comprising:
preventing different sets of MAC addresses from being present in different virtual extensible local area network (VxLAN) tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) of a set of peer VTEPs that are part of an Ethernet segment (ES) by configuring a VTEP of the set of peer VTEPs to perform steps comprising:
in response to receiving a learn notification associated with a MAC address that was learned on a peer VTEP:
determining whether adding the MAC address causes the MLL for the VTEP to be exceeded; and
in response to determining that the MLL will be exceeded if the MAC address was added:
not adding the MAC address to the ES; and
sending a MAC delete notification to remove the MAC address from the ES, which causes the MAC address to be removed from the peer VTEP and, if present, to be removed from the other peer VTEPs.