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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2011
Duane Edward Mentze, Roseville, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Roseville, CA (US);
Steven Glen Jorgensen, Newcastle, CA (US);
Duane Edward Mentze, Roseville, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Roseville, CA (US);
Steven Glen Jorgensen, Newcastle, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods for controlling a Designated Forwarder (DF) election in a multicast network are described herein. The multicast network includes a plurality of multicast network devices, including a first network device and a second network device. A Designated Forwarder is determined. It is determined whether to initiate a Designated Forwarder election based on a comparison of a metric measuring a distance to a Rendezvous Point Address from a first network device and a metric measuring the distance to the Rendezvous Point Address from the second network device.