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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2021
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Meenakshi Sundaram Selvaraj, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Anil Lohiya, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vijayalaxmi Basavaraj, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xinhua Hong, Milpitas, CA (US);
Senthilkumar Karunakaran, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen Tan, San Jose, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A network system that uses a cluster of edge nodes to send and receive multicast traffic is provided. The network system is a network virtualization environment that includes one or more distributed routers, each distributed router implemented by virtualization software running on one or more host machines. The network system also includes a cluster of edge nodes for sending data from the one or more distributed routers to one or more uplink/upstream physical routers outside of a datacenter and for receiving data from the physical routers to the distributed routers. One of the edge nodes is a designated edge node that queries for membership information for one or more multicast groups to be received by at least two edge nodes of the cluster of edge nodes. The cluster of edge nodes forwards multicast traffic to and from the distributed routers according to the received membership information.