Apparatus, system, and method for distributing routing-protocol information in clos fabrics
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Aug 7, 2018
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Jun 28, 2018
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Dec 23, 2016
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Dec 23, 2016
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The disclosed method may include (1) identifying, at a first node, a preconfigured level of the first node, (2) receiving, at the first node from a second node, a neighbor advertisement that includes a preconfigured level of the second node, (3) determining that a difference between the preconfigured level of the first node and the preconfigured level of the second node is equal to one, (4) recording, at the first node based on the difference being equal to one, an adjacency relationship between the first node and the second node, (5) transmitting a first type of routing-protocol packet from the first node to the second node based on the adjacency relationship, and (6) refraining from transmitting a second type of routing-protocol packet from the first node to the second node based on the adjacency relationship. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
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