Interoperability of data plane based overlays and control plane based overlays in a network environment

摘要

Technologies are provided in example embodiments for intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network, determining first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a first host, wherein the first host created the packet, generating a control protocol message with the first address mapping information, and communicating the control protocol message through a control plane in the network. In more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes sending the control protocol message to a network repository, where the first address mapping information is registered in the network repository. In other more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes pushing the control protocol message to one or more other tunnel endpoints. Further embodiments include decapsulating the packet to determine an endpoint identifier of the first host and a location of the first tunnel endpoint.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network; communicating, to a network repository, first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a source host associated with the intercepted packet; querying the network repository for second address mapping information associated with a destination host of the intercepted packet; generating an encapsulated packet with the second address mapping information if the second address mapping information is received from the network repository; and communicating the encapsulated packet through a data plane in the network.