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REQUESTING MULTICAST MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION IN A DISTRIBUTED SWITCH IN RESPONSE TO A MISS EVENT

  • US 20130182706A1
  • Filed: 01/18/2012
  • Published: 07/18/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of requesting multicast membership information of a group identified by a multicast destination address in a distributed switch, wherein the distributed switch includes a plurality of distributed switch elements with a plurality of switch forwarding units, the method comprising:

  • generating a miss event indicating that the multicast destination address is unregistered in a switch forwarding unit of a distributed switch element and there is a need for the multicast membership information;

    requesting the multicast membership information of the multicast destination address in response to the miss event; and

    initiating a query for the multicast membership information of the multicast destination address in response to the request.

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