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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mankamana Prasad Mishra, San Jose, CA (US);
Ijsbrand Wijnands, Leuven, BE;
Anuj Budhiraja, San Jose, CA (US);
Ali Sajassi, San Ramon, CA (US);
Stephane Litkowski, Liffre, FR;
Satya Ranjan Mohanty, San Ramon, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method comprises, at a first router configured to perform Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) for forwarding of multicast packets in a network, storing configuration information that indicates that the first router belongs to multiple subdomains of a BIER domain, and is able to forward the multicast packets for a virtual private network on the multiple subdomains. The method further comprises, during an auto-discovery procedure, generating an auto-discovery message to include an auto-discovery route and route attributes that indicate the multiple subdomains, and sending the auto-discovery message to a second router of the virtual private network the network.