公开(公告)号：US20150372827A1

公开(公告)日：2015-12-24

申请号：US14312347

申请日：2014-06-23

Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Liqin DONG ,  Yibin YANG ,  Xinggang ZHOU

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04L12/24

CPC classification number: H04L12/18 ,  H04L12/185 ,  H04L12/1886 ,  H04L41/0654 ,  H04L41/0843 ,  H04L45/16 ,  H04L47/12

Abstract: Multi-destination frames in a network fabric may be carried in IP multicast packets. As such, the network fabric may us IP multicast technique such as a PIM protocol for handling the multi-destination frames. To provide redundancy, the system administrator can use phantom rendezvous points (RPs) that include multiple physical RPs where one of the RPs serves as a primary RP and the other RPs serve as secondary RPs (e.g., backup RPs). Instead of the system administrator manually configuring the phantom RPs, the RPs are automatically configured. To do so, the system administrator may use a GUI to provide multicast groups allocated for the multi-destination traffic, the number of desired phantom RPs (or physical RPs), and the desired RP redundancy. Based on these parameters, a data center manager generates one or more templates that automatically configure the network devices in the fabric as they are booted.

Abstract translation: 网络结构中的多目的帧可以在IP组播数据包中携带。 因此，网络结构可能需要IP组播技术，例如用于处理多目的地帧的PIM协议。 为了提供冗余，系统管理员可以使用包含多个物理RP的幻像会合点（RP），其中一个RP用作主RP，而其他RP用作辅助RP（例如备份RP）。 而不是系统管理员手动配置幻像RP，RP会自动配置。 为此，系统管理员可以使用GUI来提供为多目的地业务分配的组播组，所需的幻象RP（或物理RP）的数量以及期望的RP冗余。 基于这些参数，数据中心管理器生成一个或多个模板，在模板启动时自动配置网络设备。