Patent ID: 11956214
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. An information handling system (IHS) for being a virtual extensible local area network (VxLAN) tunnel endpoint (VTEP) of a set of peer VTEPs that are part of an Ethernet segment (ES), the IHS comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium or media comprising one or more sets of instructions which, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, causes steps to be performed comprising:
in response to receiving a learn notification associated with a media access control (MAC) address that was learned on a peer VTEP:
determining whether adding the MAC address causes a MAC learning limit (MLL) for the VTEP to be exceeded; and
in response to determining that the MLL will be exceeded if the MAC address was added:
not adding the MAC address to the ES; and
sending a MAC delete notification to remove the MAC address from the ES, which causes the MAC address to be removed from the peer VTEP and, if present, to be removed from the other peer VTEPs.