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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Hangzhou H3c Technologies Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, Zhejiang, CN;
Inventor:
Yubing Song, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/753 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 12/1886 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 45/48 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 41/0668 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gateway routing bridge of a data center, obtains nicknames of designated routers (DR) of a multicast group in each virtual local area network (VLAN); calculates distribution trees rooted at each DR; receiving a multicast data packet from a multicast source of the multicast group which inside the data center; and sends the multicast data packet on the distribution tree rooted at the DR which corresponds to a multicast address and a VLAN identifier (VLAN ID) of the multicast data packet.