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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2012
Duane E. Mentze, Roseville, CA (US);
Richard J. Rollins, Penryn, CA (US);
Nam Soo Kim, Rocklin, CA (US);
Duane E. Mentze, Roseville, CA (US);
Richard J. Rollins, Penryn, CA (US);
Nam Soo Kim, Rocklin, CA (US);
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Network devices, systems, and methods, including executable instructions and/or logic thereon, are provided to discover a multicast router topology. A network device includes a processing resource coupled to a memory. The memory includes program instructions executed by the processing resource to discover a multicast router topology by determining a number of routers are connected to each other via a number of network connections and are running a multicast routing protocol (MRP) on a number of interfaces on the number of routers that are connected.