Inventors:
Shiva Bhanujan - San Jose CA, US
Ethan M. Spiegel - Mountain View CA, US
Xin Liu - San Jose CA, US
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA
International Classification:
G06F 15/177
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a request is generated for a particular device of a computer network for a unique segment identifier (ID) for a network segment comprising one or more devices sharing a unique tenant ID. The request has a request-context that includes the tenant ID and a protocol of the network segment. The request is transmitted a segment ID manager and, as a result, the segment ID manager generates and transmits a response that indicates the unique segment ID for the network segment based on the request-context. Subsequently, the particular device may then be configured to communicate on the network segment with the one or more devices based on the unique segment ID of the response.
