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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
May. 15, 2023
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rajeev Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajagopal Venkatraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/16 (2022.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 43/12 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 12/1886 (2013.01); H04L 43/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01); H04L 45/66 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method may include bridging in, via a fabric, a multicast data packet from a source device to a first edge device of a plurality of edge devices and flooding the multicast data packet to the plurality of edge devices within a mutual subnetwork of the fabric. The method further includes bridging out the multicast data packet from a second edge device of the plurality of edge devices to a receiving device. The source device and the receiving device are located within the mutual subnetwork.