公开(公告)号：US12149440B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-19

申请号：US18183730

申请日：2023-03-14

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Nitin Kumar

IPC: H04L45/00 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L45/42

Abstract: A system and associated methods provide a scalable solution for managing multiple multicast flows within a multicast group of a multicast network. The system groups redundant sources of the multicast group according to their associated multicast flows, assigns flow identifiers to each redundant source indicative of their associated multicast flows, and facilitates Single Forwarder election to select a Single Forwarder that belongs to the appropriate multicast flow. The system provides control plane extensions that enable signaling of which redundant source belongs to which multicast flow.

公开(公告)号：US20240333547A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-03

申请号：US18193282

申请日：2023-03-30

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Vinish Ramachandran ,  Sridhar Santhanam ,  Peter Psenak

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L45/00 ,  H04L45/17

CPC classification number: H04L12/185 ,  H04L45/17 ,  H04L45/32

Abstract: A method comprises, at routers of a network configured to provide connectivity from a multicast receiver to edge routers multihomed to a multicast source of multicast traffic on an Ethernet segment: creating a limited flood domain for the Ethernet segment, wherein the limited flood domain includes boundary routers positioned to make a final decision as to which of the edge routers to send a multicast join for the multicast traffic; by the boundary routers, upon receiving a source announcement that announces the multicast source is active on a particular edge router of the Ethernet segment, locally storing information, provided by the source announcement, which includes a multicast address for the multicast source and identifies a link to the particular edge router; and by boundary router of the boundary routers, upon receiving the multicast join, sending the multicast join to the particular edge router using the multicast address and the link.

公开(公告)号：US20240195678A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-13

申请号：US18065221

申请日：2022-12-13

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Nitin Kumar ,  Frank Brockners ,  Carlos M. Pignataro ,  Rakesh Gandhi

IPC: H04L41/0631 ,  H04L43/12 ,  H04L45/16

CPC classification number: H04L41/0645 ,  H04L43/12 ,  H04L45/16

Abstract: A method is performed by a network controller that is configured to control routers configured to forward a multicast flow downstream from a first hop router that is a root of a multicast tree formed by the routers to last hop routers that terminate branches of the multicast tree, respectively. The method includes collecting operational configuration information from the routers and constructing a topological view of the multicast tree based on the operational configuration information; causing the routers to forward multicast probes downstream from the first hop router along all of the branches toward the last hop routers to trace the multicast tree; receiving, from particular ones of the last hop routers that received the multicast probes, indications that the multicast probes were received; and detecting failures in the multicast tree based on the indications and the topological view.

公开(公告)号：US11985002B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-14

申请号：US18052254

申请日：2022-11-03

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Samir Thoria ,  Krishnaswamy Ananthamurthy ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L67/2895

CPC classification number: H04L12/185 ,  H04L12/1886 ,  H04L12/4679 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L67/2895

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is performed. A device may include an interface in communication with a network. The device may determine whether an all-active multi-homed ethernet segment (ES) associated with the interface is enabled. On a condition that an all-active multi-homed ES is enabled, the device may determine an ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) designated forwarder (DF) state of the all-active multi-homed ES. If the all-active multi-homed ES is enabled and has an ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) designated forwarder (DF) state, the device may enter a protocol independent multicast (PIM) designated router (DR) state. If an all-active multi-homed ES is enabled and does not have an EVPN DF state, the device may enter a PIM non-DR state.

公开(公告)号：US11811546B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-07

申请号：US17472774

申请日：2021-09-13

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Krishnaswamy Muddenahally Ananthamurthy ,  Jayashree Subramanian

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04L45/74 ,  H04L47/724 ,  H04L45/16

CPC classification number: H04L12/185 ,  H04L12/4641 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L45/74 ,  H04L47/724 ,  H04L63/0272

Abstract: A networking environment includes a first node and a second node configured as Ethernet Virtual Private Networking (EVPN) peers on an EVPN subnet that is coupled to a Layer 3 VPN over a core network. The first node receives a first multicast join request from a third node in the core network, the first multicast join request including a source address and multicast group address of a source of a multicast stream. The first node determines that the source address and the multicast group address for the source are behind the EVPN subnet at the second node. The first node sends to the second node, a control plane join request message that includes a receiver identifier that identifies the third node as a receiver of the multicast stream, the receiver identifier enabling the second node to forward the multicast stream directly into the core network to the third node.

公开(公告)号：US11716216B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-01

申请号：US17671807

申请日：2022-02-15

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Jayashree Subramanian ,  Stig Ingvar Venaas ,  Rishabh Parekh ,  Ravindran Rajarao

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L45/60

CPC classification number: H04L12/185 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L45/60

Abstract: In an example method for redundant multicast trees with fast recovery, a protocol independent multicast (PIM) backup designated router (BDR) can receive a request from a host to join a multicast group associated with a source; send to a next hop a PIM join message identifying an address of the PIM BDR and identifying the PIM join message as a backup PIM join; receive, from a PIM router along a path to/from the source, a unicast message sent to the address which identifies a second address associated with the PIM router; store the second address and a route associated with the unicast message; in response to a designated router migration trigger, set to blocking a backup multicast tree state associated with the source and multicast group; and send, to the PIM router, a unicast message including instructions to set to blocking a backup multicast tree state at the PIM router.

公开(公告)号：US20230188457A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US18166775

申请日：2023-02-09

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Anuj Budhiraja ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Stephane Litkowski ,  Satya Ranjan Mohanty

IPC: H04L45/16 ,  H04L45/586 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L45/02

CPC classification number: H04L45/16 ,  H04L45/586 ,  H04L12/1886 ,  H04L12/4641 ,  H04L12/185 ,  H04L45/02

Abstract: A method comprises, at a first router configured to perform Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) for forwarding of multicast packets in a network, storing configuration information that indicates that the first router belongs to multiple subdomains of a BIER domain, and is able to forward the multicast packets for a virtual private network on the multiple subdomains. The method further comprises, during an auto-discovery procedure, generating an auto-discovery message to include an auto-discovery route and route attributes that indicate the multiple subdomains, and sending the auto-discovery message to a second router of the virtual private network the network.

公开(公告)号：US20230163968A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-25

申请号：US18151876

申请日：2023-01-09

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ketan Jivan Talaulikar ,  Sameer Ranjit Gulrajani ,  Swadesh Agrawal

IPC: H04L9/32

CPC classification number: H04L9/3213 ,  H04L45/16

Abstract: In one embodiment, method includes receiving, by a first network apparatus, a first multicast message from a second network apparatus. The first multicast message includes attestation-capability information associated with the second network apparatus and an attestation token. The attestation token is for proving that the second network apparatus is in a known safe state. The method also includes determining, by the first network apparatus, that the attestation-capability information satisfies a pre-determined attestation capability requirement and determining, by the first network apparatus, that the attestation token is valid for the second network apparatus at a current time. The method further includes establishing, by the first network apparatus, an adjacency to the second network apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US11627071B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-11

申请号：US17361510

申请日：2021-06-29

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ijsbrand Wijnands ,  Anuj Budhiraja ,  Ali Sajassi ,  Stephane Litkowski ,  Satya Ranjan Mohanty

IPC: H04L45/00 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L45/586 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L45/02

Abstract: A method comprises, at a first router configured to perform Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) for forwarding of multicast packets in a network, storing configuration information that indicates that the first router belongs to multiple subdomains of a BIER domain, and is able to forward the multicast packets for a virtual private network on the multiple subdomains. The method further comprises, during an auto-discovery procedure, generating an auto-discovery message to include an auto-discovery route and route attributes that indicate the multiple subdomains, and sending the auto-discovery message to a second router of the virtual private network the network.

公开(公告)号：US11575513B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-07

申请号：US16867795

申请日：2020-05-06

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mankamana Prasad Mishra ,  Ketan Jivan Talaulikar ,  Sameer Ranjit Gulrajani ,  Swadesh Agrawal

IPC: H04L9/32 ,  H04L45/16

Abstract: In one embodiment, method includes receiving, by a first network apparatus, a first multicast message from a second network apparatus. The first multicast message includes attestation-capability information associated with the second network apparatus and an attestation token. The attestation token is for proving that the second network apparatus is in a known safe state. The method also includes determining, by the first network apparatus, that the attestation-capability information satisfies a pre-determined attestation capability requirement and determining, by the first network apparatus, that the attestation token is valid for the second network apparatus at a current time. The method further includes establishing, by the first network apparatus, an adjacency to the second network apparatus.