CPC H04L 45/16 (2013.01) [H04L 45/74 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method, comprising:
by one or more computing devices:
receiving, at a fabric border node and from an external computing system, a packet comprising a header and a data set, wherein the packet is a directed broadcast;
extracting, at the fabric border node, a destination address from the packet;
determining that the fabric border node does not recognize the destination address;
based at least in part on the fabric border node not recognizing the destination address, transmitting, from the fabric border node and to a mapping computing device, a request to resolve the destination address;
receiving, at the fabric border node and from the mapping computing device, resolved address that maps to the destination address;
receiving, at the fabric border node and from one or more distribution computing devices, a request to receive transmissions associated with the packet;
modifying the resolved address based on the request to receive transmissions associated with the packet to result in a modified resolved address;
encapsulating the packet with the modified resolved address; and
transmitting the encapsulated packet to the one or more distribution computing devices having the modified resolved address.
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