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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2010
Mehul Dholakia, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wing-keung Adam Yeung, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Ajeer S. Pudiyapura, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mehul Dholakia, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wing-Keung Adam Yeung, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Ajeer S. Pudiyapura, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques that enable a network device such as a router to provide multicast routing services without interruption. Techniques are provided for using bicasting to synchronize multicast information maintained by a first processor and multicast information maintained by a second processor. A multicast protocol related event of packet is sent to both a first processor operating in active mode and a second processor operating in standby mode. Each processor then updates its multicast information based upon the bicasted event or packet.