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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2023
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Spring, TX (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
One aspect can provide a system and method for selective data forwarding in a multicast network. During operation, a querier router in the multicast network receives, at a first port of, a query-response packet from a network device in response to an all-host query sent by the querier router and add the first port to a port list comprising a number of ports coupled to non-querier devices in the multicast network. In response to receiving a multicast-join message, the querier router can forward the multicast-join message to the ports on the port list comprising the first port except for a port that receives the multicast-join message. Forwarding the multicast-join message to the first port causes the multicast-join message to be received at a second port of a layer-2 switch, which allows the layer-2 switch to forward unknown multicast data packets to the querier device via the second port.