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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2018
Dell Products, Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Chandrasekhar Puthillathe, Bangalore, IN;
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Service discovery is accomplished across a network with reduced traffic. Network devices often receive multicast discovery requests for various protocols and/or services, which increase network traffic and degrade network performance. Here, though, a server maintains a membership list for a particular protocol. The server populates the membership list with subnet devices that confirm the particular protocol. Whenever the server receives a discovery request associated with the protocol, the server need not clog its subnet with multicast requests. Instead, the server need only retrieve the membership list that is associated with the protocol. The membership list contains the subnet addresses assigned to the subnet devices that confirm the particular protocol.