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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2022
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mankamana Prasad Mishra, San Jose, CA (US);
Anuj Budhiraja, San Jose, CA (US);
Sridhar Santhanam, Dublin, CA (US);
Sunil Krishnan K, Kannur, IN;
Assignee:
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/16 (2022.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method by a router in a multicast network for multicast mtrace extension to trace one or more any-source multicast (ASM) sources includes transmitting a mtrace (*,G) route to a last hop router, receiving an active source list, and creating a mtrace (S,G) route for a rendezvous point (RP) to initiate based on the received active source list.