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

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive a segment routing (SR) packet, 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 system, and a first SR header (SRH) including a first segment list including one or more segment identifiers;
update 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; and
remove the first SRH from the SR packet; and
send, to a node in a network, an updated SR packet comprising the SR packet without the first SRH and with the IP destination address updated to the specific segment identifier.