发明名称 |
Constraining flooding of multicast traffic in Layer2 networks |
摘要 |
A mechanism for a network device to constrain multicast flooding of out-of-profile multicast frames is provided by defining a multicast flood domain that includes a subset of ports that are members of the broadcast domain. Such a multicast flood domain can be user configured or dynamically configured to include device ports that are coupled to network elements that should receive such out-of-profile multicast transmissions and exclude network elements that should not receive such multicast transmissions. In one embodiment of the present invention, such capability is provided by incorporating into a network device a mechanism for performing a multicast flood domain lookup of an address table in the event that an out-of-profile multicast frame is received.
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申请公布号 |
US2007091890(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2007.04.26 |
申请号 |
US20050257696 |
申请日期 |
2005.10.25 |
申请人 |
RADHAKRISHNAN CHANDRAMOULI;BORGIONE GAETANO;GURUSAMY KARTHIKEYAN |
发明人 |
RADHAKRISHNAN CHANDRAMOULI;BORGIONE GAETANO;GURUSAMY KARTHIKEYAN |
分类号 |
H04L12/56 |
主分类号 |
H04L12/56 |
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