US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on July 21 for "Configurable source virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) identifier for unicast reverse path forwarding (RPF) in a programmable network device" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,585, issued on July 21, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configurable source virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) identifier for unicast reverse path forwarding (RPF) in a programmable network device" was invented by Vishal Bandekar (Bangalore, India) and Naina Jalan (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device or a system can be configured to support split virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) for unicast reverse path forwarding (RPF). A method is provided that includes receiving a data packet, performing VRF mapping lookup to identify a forwarding VRF identifier and a source VRF ident...