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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2019
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sameer Seth, Bangalore, IN;
Ananda Kumar M R, Bangalore, IN;
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for redundantly forwarding encapsulated multicast traffic of a multicast distribution tree, using reliable overlay connections established between adjacent nodes of the multicast distribution tree. An example router of this disclosure is configured to receive first multicast packets of a multicast flow via a multicast distribution tree, to receive second multicast packets of the multicast flow via a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection of a connection-oriented distribution tree implemented in parallel to the multicast distribution tree, and in response to determining that the LHR has received a multicast packet of the first multicast packets via the multicast distribution tree out of order to create a gap of one or more of the first multicast packets for the multicast flow, forward, to at least one interested receiver positioned downstream of the router, the second multicast packets.