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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Thyamagundalu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mahesh Shirshyad, San Jose, CA (US);
Nikhil Gopinath Shetty, Milpitas, CA (US);
Siva Gaggara, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bharat Kumar Bandaru, San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method for to multicast traffic distribution in a multi-pod network environment is provided and includes provisioning a block of multicast group addresses for broadcast, unknown unicast and multicast (BUM) traffic distribution between pods in the multi-pod network, calculating a hash corresponding to a bridge domain (BD) extending across a plurality of pods in the multi-pod network, the hash being identically calculated at each one of the plurality of pod, indexing with the hash into the block of multicast group addresses designated for inter-pod BUM traffic to derive a global multicast group identical for the broadcast domain across the plurality of pods, and associating a local multicast group at the translator with the derived global multicast group.