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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2023
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Bin Liu, Beijing, CN;
Wenying Dong, Beijing, CN;
Ruochen Shen, Beijing, CN;
Quan Tian, Beijing, CN;
Jianjun Shen, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 45/16 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosure provides approaches for managing multicast group membership at a node. An approach includes policing whether a pod can join a multicast group based on one or more rules. The approach further includes updating forwarding tables of a virtual switch based on whether the pod is allowed to join the multicast group.