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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2018
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kiran Immidi, Fremont, CA (US);
Santosh Kumar, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Kalyan Chakravarthy Nidumolu, Fremont, CA (US);
Prashant Srinivas, San Jose, CA (US);
Gaofeng Yue, San Jose, CA (US);
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Multicast traffic in a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN). In some embodiments, a method is provided. The method includes registering a network device as a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) tunnel endpoint (VTEP) of a VXLAN. The VXLAN includes an overlay network and the overlay network is implemented on an underlay network. The method also includes receiving multicast traffic from the multicast source. The method further includes transmitting the multicast traffic to one or more multicast receivers using the underlay network.