Weighted multicast join load balance
US11477113B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 18, 2020 |
| Grant date | Oct 18, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 18, 2040 |
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- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
In some examples, a method includes receiving, by an egress network device for a network, messages from each of a plurality of ingress network devices for the network, wherein each of the messages specifies a multicast source, a multicast group, and an upstream multicast hop weight value for multicast traffic for the multicast source and the multicast group; selecting, by the egress network device and based on the upstream multicast hop weight values specified by the received messages, one of the plurality of ingress network devices to which to send a multicast join message of a plurality of multicast join messages for the multicast source and multicast group; and sending, by the egress network device, the multicast join message to the selected one of the plurality of ingress network devices.
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