CPC H04L 45/16 (2013.01) [H04L 45/125 (2013.01); H04L 45/32 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
at a router node configured for communication of multicast traffic in a network fabric comprising a plurality of spine nodes interconnected to a plurality of leaf nodes, and further configured as one of the leaf nodes,
sending a message for flooding the network fabric to communicate the message to other leaf nodes in the network fabric based on identifying an indication of communication of multicast traffic for a multicast group from a source device, the message including at least one spine node identifier of at least one excluded spine node to exclude from joining to the multicast group for the communication of the multicast traffic; and
forwarding the multicast traffic for the multicast group to one of the plurality of spine nodes other than the at least one excluded spine node indicated by the at least one spine node identifier.
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