| US 7,512,146 B1 | ||
| Method and apparatus for layer 2 multicast traffic management | ||
| Dileep Sivasankaran, Fremont, Calif. (US); Frank S. Madren, Los Gatos, Calif. (US); and Rajeev Garg, Fremont, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Garrettcom, Inc., Fremont, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on May 10, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/431,735. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/763569, filed on Jan. 31, 2006. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—432 [370/390; 370/252] | 14 Claims |
| 1. A method of implementing multicasting in a layer 2 network, the method comprising:
snooping multicast protocol packets by multiple switches in the layer 2 network;
generating query messages by each of the multiple switches; and
forwarding join report messages by each of the multiple switches to all ports on which a querier is present.
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