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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mankamana Prasad Mishra, Dublin, CA (US);
Pascal Thubert, La Colle sur Loup, FR;
IJsbrand Wijnands, Leuven, BE;
Krishnaswamy Ananthamurthy, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ramakrishnan Chokkanathapuram Sundaram, Fremont, CA (US);
Stig Ingvar Venaas, Oakland, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one illustrative example, a network node connected in a network fabric may identify that it is established as part of a multicast distribution tree for forwarding multicast traffic from a source node to one or more host receiver devices of a multicast group. In response, the network node may propagate in the network fabric a message for advertising the network node as a candidate local source node at which to join the multicast group. The message for advertising may include data such as a reachability metric. The propagation of the message may be part of a flooding of such messages in the network fabric. The network node serving as the candidate local source node may thereafter 'locally' join a host receiver device in the multicast group at the network node so that the device may receive the multicast traffic from the source node via the network node.