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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2002
Pradeep Sindhu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Debashis Basu, San Jose, CA (US);
Pankaj Patel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Raymond Lim, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Avanindra Godbole, San Jose, CA (US);
Tatao Chuang, San Jose, CA (US);
Chi-chung K. Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jeffrey G. Libby, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dennis Ferguson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philippe Lacroute, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gerald Cheung, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pradeep Sindhu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Debashis Basu, San Jose, CA (US);
Pankaj Patel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Raymond Lim, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Avanindra Godbole, San Jose, CA (US);
Tatao Chuang, San Jose, CA (US);
Chi-Chung K. Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jeffrey G. Libby, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dennis Ferguson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Philippe Lacroute, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gerald Cheung, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A network device includes an interface and packet processing logic. The interface receives a multicast packet. The packet processing logic determines identifier data corresponding to the received multicast packet and replicates the identifier data to multiple outgoing packet forward engines at a first point in a processing path. The packet processing logic further replicates the identifier data to multiple data streams at a second point in the processing path and replicates the identifier data to multiple logical interfaces in the same stream at a third point in the processing path.