Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Christopher Affleck

Duane Edward Mentze

Vigneshwara Upadhyaya

Nitin Singla

Yashavantha Nagaraju Naguvanahalli

Madhu Prashanth Kannan

Aparna Anand

A system may comprise a dock. The dock may comprise a front. The front may include a front side, wherein a plurality of connectors are disposed on the front side and wherein the plurality of connectors accept external cables, and a rear side, wherein the rear side includes a plurality of extenders and wherein each one of the plurality of extenders connects to one of the plurality of connectors. The dock may comprise a rear including an aperture to allow for insertion of a computing device, wherein the plurality of extenders correspond with and connect to one of a connector on the computing device.

Computing device dock

A method for multicast routing may include receiving, at a router of a receiving multicast domain, a data packet from a forwarding multicast domain. The method may further include configuring the router to operate as if a multicast forwarding information base entry is directly connected, and configuring the router with a reverse path forwarding override with source discovery such that a path used by multicast traffic is different from a path used for unicast traffic.

Multicast routing

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Roseville, CA, United States of America

Christopher Affleck