OPTIMIZING TRAFFIC FLOWS WHEN USING SERVER VIRTUALIZATION WITH DYNAMIC ROUTING

摘要

Techniques for optimizing traffic flows when server virtualization is used with dynamic routing are provided. A first set of techniques involve modifications solely to the respective nodes in a VRRP/MC-LAG cluster, and thus can be implemented in a manner that is transparent to other devices outside of that cluster. A second set of techniques involve changes to the dynamic routing protocol (DRP) used by the network, and thus impact the dynamic routing implementations in both the cluster nodes and the client devices that communicate with those nodes over DRP links.