Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Load balancing designated routers for multicast groups
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Application No.: US16813691Application Date: 2020-03-09
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Publication No.: US11431635B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Vijayalaxmi Basavaraj , Ankur Dubey , Sami Boutros
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Adeli LLP
- Main IPC: H04L47/125
- IPC: H04L47/125 ; H04L12/66 ; H04L12/18

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for a host computer that executes a set of data compute nodes (DCNs), for identifying a designated router for a multicast group. The method receives a membership request message to join the multicast group from a particular DCN of the set of DCNs, the membership request message including an address associated with the multicast group. The method identifies a logical router gateway from a set of logical router gateways as the designated router for the multicast group, based at least in part on the address associated with the multicast group, where different logical router gateways from the set of logical router gateways are assigned as designated routers for different multicast groups with different associated addresses. The method forwards the membership request message to the identified logical router gateway.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210281515A1 LOAD BALANCING DESIGNATED ROUTERS FOR MULTICAST GROUPS Public/Granted day:2021-09-09
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