Patent ID: 11924119
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform actions comprising:
receiving, at a first port of a first network device of a fabric network comprising a plurality of network devices, a packet from a first host destined for a second host, wherein the second host is onboarded to the fabric network via a second port of a second network device;
determining if a first protected flag associated with the first port of the first network device is set as true;
determining if a second protected flag associated with the second host is set as true; and
based at least in part on (i) the first protected flag associated with the first port of the first network device being set as true and (ii) the second protected flag associated with the second host being set as true, dropping, by the first network device, the packet.