US 11,743,166 B2
Provisioning non-colored segment routing label switched paths via segment routing policies in border gateway protocol
Amit Kumar Shrivastava, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/247,795.
Claims priority of application No. 202041023284 (IN), filed on Jun. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0385150 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 45/02 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/02 (2013.01) 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a network device, a segment routing policy advertisement specifying an endpoint of one or more paths and a policy color of the one or more paths, wherein the policy color is specified with a designated value that causes the network device to store the one or more paths in a data structure that stores non-colored paths;
determining, by the network device, that the policy color is specified with the designated value; and
in response to determining that the policy color is specified with the designated value, storing, by the network device, the one or more paths in the data structure that stores non-colored paths.