Patent number: 10164866

Virtual extensible LAN intercommunication mechanism for multicast in networking

Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation

Field of technology: Computer Software

Patent granted on: Tue, 25 Dec 2018

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Abstract

A mechanism for multicast (M-VIM) is used to resolve address looking up problems for different types of VXLAN related overlay networks for multicast and broadcast traffics. A Multicast Overlay Ferry Proxy (MOFP) is introduced between a VXLAN domain and the CNI domain for ferrying control plane and data panel information. The M-VIM mechanism comprises three parts: a VXLAN Module; a CNI Module; and a proxy mechanism.