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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2022
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Wenying Dong, Beijing, CN;
Lan Luo, Beijing, CN;
Ruochen Shen, Beijing, CN;
Jianjun Shen, Redwood City, CA (US);
Antonin Mathieu Bas, Menlo Park, CA (US);
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage multicast communications for containers in a computing network. In one example, a first node is configured to monitor for registration packets from pods on the first node to join a multicast group. The first node further identifies a registration packet from a first pod of the pods, wherein the registration packet indicates a multicast IP address, and configures one or more forwarding rules in a virtual switch to direct packets with the multicast IP address as a destination IP address to a virtual interface for the first pod. Once configured, the first node is further configured to receive a packet with the multicast IP address as the destination and direct the packet based on the one or more or more forwarding rules.