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Leaking routes in a service chain

  • US 10,063,468 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2016
  • Issued: 08/28/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving, at a network element, a flow offload decision for a first service node in a portion of a service chain for processing a flow; and

    updating next hop flow based routing information for the flow, wherein a next hop in the flow can insert flow specific route information in its routing tables to bypass a packet forwarder serving a service that offloaded the flow.

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