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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2011
Shunjia Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Anoop Ghanwani, Rocklin, CA (US);
Nagarajan Venkatesan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rajiv Krishnamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Phanidhar Koganti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mythilikanth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Shunjia Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Anoop Ghanwani, Rocklin, CA (US);
Nagarajan Venkatesan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rajiv Krishnamurthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Phanidhar Koganti, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mythilikanth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and techniques for performing network layer multicasting in a TRILL network are described. Some embodiments provide a system that receives multicast packet that includes a network-layer multicast-address. The multicast packet can be received on a first multicast tree associated with a first virtual network. Next, the system can determine, based on the network-layer multicast-address, a second multicast tree associated with a second virtual network over which the multicast packet is to be forwarded. The system can then forward the multicast packet on the first multicast tree associated with the first virtual network, and forward a copy of the multicast packet on the second multicast tree associated with the second virtual network.