US 12,003,414 B1
Traffic handling for EVPN E-tree
Akhil Shashidhar, Cedar Park, TX (US); and Aaron David Bamberger, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/192,578.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/485,689, filed on Feb. 17, 2023.
Int. Cl. H04L 45/50 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/00 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/50 (2013.01) [H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/32 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of conveying Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) routing information, the method comprising:
advertising, by an EVPN network device, an EVPN Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag (IMET) route toward one or more peer EVPN network devices,
wherein the EVPN IMET route contains an Ethernet-tree (E-tree) extended community.