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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a gateway node that facilitates communications between a first network and a second network, a gateway preference order associated with a route advertised by an edge node, the edge node associated with the first network;
determining, by the gateway node and 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, by the gateway node, the gateway preference order into a metric associated with an internet protocol (IP) routing protocol that is in use in the second network; and
distributing, by the gateway node, 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.