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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2012
Santosh Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Sane, Fremont, CA (US);
Leonard T. Tracy, Vancouver, WA (US);
Ayan Banerjee, Fremont, CA (US);
Santosh Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Sane, Fremont, CA (US);
Leonard T. Tracy, Vancouver, WA (US);
Ayan Banerjee, Fremont, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method is provided and includes a multicast data message from a data source, the message in a first virtual local area network and being associated with a multicast group. The method also includes calculating a hash value based on the virtual local area network, the data source, and the multicast group, determining a port for a designated router in a Layer-2 network based on the hash value, and switching the multicast data message to the port that was determined.