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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2021
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijay Mahadevan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rajesh Semwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prashant Srinivas, San Jose, CA (US);
ARISTA NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein relate to techniques for designated forwarder (DF) elections, which may include: obtaining DF candidates that are part of a supplementary broadcast domain (SBD), wherein the DF candidate is one of the plurality of DF candidates for the SBD; performing a SBD DF election process to determine an SBD DF winner from among the DF candidates; making a first determination that the DF candidate is not the SBD DF winner; making second determination that a first broadcast domain (BD) provisioned on the DF candidate is not provisioned on the SBD DF winner; excluding the first BD from a set of BDs that are also provisioned on the SBD DF winner; performing additional DF election processes for each BD of the set of BDs; and processing multicast traffic based at least in part on the SBD DF election process and the additional DF election processes.