Inventors:
Pradeep Sindhu - Los Altos Hills CA, US
Debashis Basu - San Jose CA, US
Pankaj Patel - Cupertino CA, US
Raymond Lim - Los Altos Hills CA, US
Avanindra Godbole - San Jose CA, US
Tatao Chuang - San Jose CA, US
Chi-Chung K. Chen - Cupertino CA, US
Jeffrey G. Libby - Cupertino CA, US
Dennis Ferguson - Palo Alto CA, US
Philippe Lacroute - Sunnyvale CA, US
Gerald Cheung - Palo Alto CA, US
Assignee:
Juniper Networks, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA
International Classification:
H04L 12/28
Abstract:
A network device includes an interface and packet processing logic. The interface receives a multicast packet. The packet processing logic determines identifier data corresponding to the received multicast packet and replicates the identifier data to multiple outgoing packet forward engines at a first point in a processing path. The packet processing logic further replicates the identifier data to multiple data streams at a second point in the processing path and replicates the identifier data to multiple logical interfaces in the same stream at a third point in the processing path.