US 12,096,337 B2
Distributed wireless gateway
Mitchell Ryan Jameson, Vancouver (CA); and Chandrashekhar Appanna, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/306,926.
Application 18/306,926 is a continuation of application No. 17/246,464, filed on Apr. 30, 2021, granted, now 11,671,897.
Prior Publication US 2023/0337112 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 40/248 (2013.01) [H04W 40/023 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method in a distributed gateway system comprising a plurality of network devices, the method comprising:
a first network device of the distributed gateway system receiving a packet from an access point (AP) coupled to the first network device, the received packet containing an inner packet sent to the AP from a host associated with the AP;
the first network device identifying the associated host from the inner packet contained in the received packet;
the first network device storing into a forwarding database of the first network device an entry that represents a mapping between the identified associated host and the AP;
the first network device advertising to other network devices of the distributed gateway system a next hop message that represents a mapping between the identified associated host and the first network device; and
the first network device advertising to the other network devices of the distributed gateway system a participation message that indicates participation by the first network device in flood lists that target a communication domain to which the AP belongs.