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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhaohui Zhang, Westford, MA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, a network device may determine a route distinguisher (RD) that is associated with a bit index explicit replication (BIER) domain, wherein the network device participates in the BIER domain and one or more BIER sub-domains of the BIER domain. The network device may identify BIER sub-domain information associated with a BIER sub-domain of the one or more BIER sub-domains of the BIER domain. The network device may identify proxy information that is associated with the BIER sub-domain. The network device may send an advertisement that includes a BIER prefix of the network device, the BIER sub-domain information, the RD, and the proxy information. Sending the advertisement is to permit a receiving network device to store the proxy information in a bit index forwarding table (BIFT) of the receiving network device.