MULTICAST HANDLING BASED ON MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL ADDRESS

Abstract: in some implementations, a network device of a network may discover a media access control (mac) address of a host device, associated with an attachment circuit, that has moved to the network device from another network device of the network. the network device may transmit, based on discovering the mac address of the host device that has moved to the network device from the other network device, over the attachment circuit, a general membership query. in some implementations, another network device may receive a media access control (mac) advertisement route message indicating that the network device has discovered the mac address of the host device. the other network device may delete one or more multicast group memberships associated with the host device.

Inventor(s): Vinod Kumar NAGARAJ, Zhaohui ZHANG

CPC Classification: H04L12/185 (for broadcast or conference {, e.g. multicast})

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