| 摘要 |
A method includes receiving multicast traffic intended for host devices; identifying a flow associated with the multicast traffic; retrieving information associated with a group of multicast trees, where the group of multicast trees includes information associated with a group of I/O units, associated with a network node; identifying a particular tree that corresponds to the identified flow, where the particular tree includes information associated with a set of I/O units; and transferring the multicast traffic to an I/O unit, of the set of I/O units, based on the identification of the particular tree, where the transferring enables the I/O unit to send a copy of the multicast traffic to other I/O units of the set of I/O units, and the set of I/O units to process the multicast traffic in a manner that utilizes bandwidth or processing resources in a controlled manner and to send a copy of the multicast traffic to each of the host devices. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method performed by a network device, the method comprising:
receiving, by a first input/output (I/O) unit of a plurality of I/O units associated with the network device, multicast traffic intended for a plurality of devices connected via the network device; determining, by the first I/O unit and based on information identifying a flow associated with the multicast traffic, whether the multicast traffic is to be processed based on a first binary tree or a second binary tree,
a root node, of the first binary tree, being associated with a second I/O unit of the plurality of I/O units,a root node, of the second binary tree, being associated with a third I/O unit of the plurality of I/O units, andanother node, of the first binary tree, corresponding to the root node of the second binary tree; and selectively sending, by the first I/O unit, the multicast traffic to:
the second I/O unit to be processed based on the first binary tree when the multicast traffic is to be processed based on the first binary tree, orthe third I/O unit to be processed based on the second binary tree when the multicast traffic is to be processed based on the second binary tree. |
