Patent ID: 11968232
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A method, comprising:
determining, by a network device and based on a routing table, a plurality of routing paths from the network device to another network device,
wherein the plurality of routing paths are respectively associated with a plurality of security classifications;
wherein the plurality of routing paths are each associated with a different cost metric, and
wherein a cost metric, of a plurality of cost metrics is:
an interior gateway protocol (IGP) cost metric, or
a traffic engineering (TE) cost metric;

receiving, by the network device, network traffic that is destined for the other network device and that is associated with a particular security classification of the plurality of security classifications; and
forwarding, by the network device, the network traffic based on a particular routing path, of the plurality of routing paths, that is associated with the other network device and the particular security classification.