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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2019
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anantharamu Suryanarayana, San Jose, CA (US);

Yuvaraja Mariappan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/20 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01);
Abstract

A software defined networking (SDN) controller is configured to receive, from a Top-Of-Rack (TOR) switch, a first multicast route and a second multicast route. In response to determining that the first multicast route is an assisted replication route, the SDN controller is configured to add a first nexthop specified by the first multicast route to a list of nexthops for Broadcast, Unknown-Unicast, and Multicast (BUM) traffic. In response to determining that the second multicast route is not the assisted replication route, the SDN controller is configured to refrain from adding a second nexthop specified by the second multicast route to the list of nexthops. After adding the first nexthop, the SDN controller is configured to provision the list of nexthops at a virtual router.


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