Patent ID: 11882203
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving a segment routing (SR) packet by a first node in a network, wherein the SR packet includes an outer Internet Protocol (IP) header with an IP destination address having a value of a particular IP address of the first node, and a first SR header (SRH) including a first segment list including one or more segment identifiers;
updating, by the first node, the IP destination address to a specific segment identifier from one of the first segment list or a second segment list of a second SRH of the SR packet;
removing, by the first node, the first SRH from the SR packet; and
sending, from the first node to a second node, an updated SR packet comprising the SR packet without the first SRH and with the IP destination address updated to the specific segment identifier.