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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2012
Nagarajan Venkatesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Anoop Ghanwani, Rocklin, CA (US);
Shunjia Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Phanidhar Koganti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajiv Krishnamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Nagarajan Venkatesan, San Jose, CA (US);
Anoop Ghanwani, Rocklin, CA (US);
Shunjia Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Phanidhar Koganti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajiv Krishnamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. A switch includes a storage and a multicast management mechanism. The storage is configured to store an entry indicating a multicast group membership learned at a remote switch. The multicast management mechanism is coupled to the storage and is configured to suppress flooding of packets destined for the multicast group.