Patent ID: 9100216
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing switches in a data center, the method comprising: establishing, at a switch in the data center, a connection with at least one other switch in the data center which has a multi-tiered architecture, the multi-tiered architecture having at least a first tier, a second tier on top of first tier and a third tier on top of the second tier; provisioning, at the switch, device prefixes for IPv6 addresses, wherein: configuring a hardware memory of the switch to include a table having a plurality of IPv6 entries, each IPv6 entry including prefix information identifying a specific VLAN on a specific switch in the data center and forwarding information associated with the specific switch in the data center; and transferring, by the switch, packets using the prefix information and the address information in the hardware memory.