公开(公告)号：US20240243942A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-18

申请号：US18126325

申请日：2023-03-24

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Bin Liu ,  Wenying Dong ,  Ruochen Shen ,  Quan Tian ,  Jianjun Shen

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L45/16

CPC classification number: H04L12/185 ,  H04L45/16

Abstract: The disclosure provides approaches for managing multicast group membership at a node. An approach includes policing whether a pod can join a multicast group based on one or more rules. The approach further includes updating forwarding tables of a virtual switch based on whether the pod is allowed to join the multicast group.