Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control plane-based EVPN optimized inter-subnet multicast (OISM) forwarding
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Application No.: US16577717Application Date: 2019-09-20
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Publication No.: US11063860B2Publication Date: 2021-07-13
- Inventor: Vikram Nagarajan , Princy T. Elizabeth
- Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04L12/761
- IPC: H04L12/761 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L12/721

Abstract:
In general, techniques are described for providing control plane-based OISM forwarding. For example, network devices may configure two types of next hops for a multicast group. For example, the next hops may include an L2-switched next hop and an L3-routed next hop. The L2-switched next hop specifies the one or more other PE devices as a next hop for multicast traffic for the multicast group that is received on an access-facing interface of the PE device and switched on a source Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN). The L3-routed next hop specifies a list (e.g., either an empty list or specifying incapable Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) devices) as a next hop for multicast traffic for the multicast group that is received over an EVPN core on a core-facing interface of the PE device and locally routed from the source VLAN to a listener VLAN.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210092045A1 CONTROL PLANE-BASED EVPN OPTIMIZED INTER-SUBNET MULTICAST (OISM) FORWARDING Public/Granted day:2021-03-25
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