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.

公开(公告)号：US20240039751A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US17945435

申请日：2022-09-15

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Wenying Dong ,  Lan Luo ,  Ruochen Shen ,  Jianjun Shen ,  Antonin Mathieu Bas

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L1/18

CPC classification number: H04L12/185 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L1/188

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage multicast communications for containers in a computing network. In one example, a first node is configured to monitor for registration packets from pods on the first node to join a multicast group. The first node further identifies a registration packet from a first pod of the pods, wherein the registration packet indicates a multicast IP address, and configures one or more forwarding rules in a virtual switch to direct packets with the multicast IP address as a destination IP address to a virtual interface for the first pod. Once configured, the first node is further configured to receive a packet with the multicast IP address as the destination and direct the packet based on the one or more or more forwarding rules.