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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2015
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Mohnish Anumala, Cupertino, CA (US);
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for provisioning multicast groups based on broadcast domain participation includes a server. The server includes one or more multicast traffic producers collectively participating in a plurality of first broadcast domains and a multicast group including identifiers of other servers that participate in any of the first broadcast domains. Each of the multicast traffic producers participates in one or more of the plurality of first broadcast domains. The server is configured to direct multicast traffic associated with any of the first broadcast domains to each of the other servers identified in the multicast group.