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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Nataraj Bacthu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Raghava Sivaramu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Srinivasan Ramabadran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Terry Fangcheng Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Lenin Babu Dontuboyina, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems for arbitrating direct forwarder ('DF') instantiation between VPC peers used to facilitating the transport of bidirectional multicast traffic over a L2/L3 network boundary. In some aspects, arbitration of DF instantiation on a given VPC peer can include determining a first set of metrics for a first VPC switch, determining a second set of metrics for a second VPC switch, and determining, at the first VPC switch, whether to instantiate a designated forwarder (DF) operation based on a comparison of the first set of metrics and the second set of metrics. Methods and machine-readable media are also provided.