US 12,452,162 B2
Methods and devices for replicating multicast control packets in hardware
Mohammad Nasir Ahmed, Bangalore (IN); and Sridhar Malarouthu, Pleasanton, CA (US)
Assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC, Claremont, NC (US)
Filed by Ruckus IP Holdings LLC, Claremont, NC (US)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/973,604.
Claims priority of application No. 202141049050 (IN), filed on Oct. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0126314 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 45/16 (2022.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 45/58 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/16 (2013.01) [H04L 12/18 (2013.01); H04L 45/58 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
learning, by a networking device, two or more local routers coupled to ports of the networking device;
storing directly at the networking device, an association between the two or more local routers and the ports of the networking device based on the learning;
configuring a packet processor of the networking device for hardware-based replication of multicast control packets based on the association between the two or more local routers and the ports of the networking device that was directly stored at the networking device;
receiving a multicast control packet by the networking device; and
replicating, by the packet processor of the networking device, the multicast control packet using the hardware-based replication, based on the association between the two or more local routers and the ports of the networking device that was directly stored at the networking device.