Assisted replication with multi-homing and local bias

A device, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• and
• one or more processors to:
• receive, from a customer edge device, a packet to be provided to a set of provider edge devices,
• wherein a first subset of the set of provider edge devices is multi-homed with the customer edge device,
• wherein a second subset of the set of provider edge devices is not multi-homed with the customer edge device;
• configure a flag in a provider multicast service interface (PMSI) tunnel attribute of an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) type 3 route,
• wherein the flag indicates capability information indicating a capability of an assisted replicator device;
• determine, after receiving the packet, the capability of the assisted replicator device based on the capability information received from the assisted replicator device,
• wherein the capability of the assisted replicator device relates to whether the assisted replicator device is capable of retaining a source Internet protocol (IP) address of the packet, and
• wherein the assisted replicator device is not configured to retain the source IP address of the packet;
• and
• provide a first copy of the packet to the first subset of the set of provider edge devices and a second copy of the packet to the assisted replicator device to permit the assisted replicator device to provide the second copy of the packet to the second subset of the set of provider edge devices.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

• one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• receive, from a provider edge device, a packet to be provided to one or more other provider edge devices,
• wherein some of the one or more other provider edge devices are not multi-homed with a same customer edge device as the provider edge device;
• configure a flag in a provider multicast service interface (PMSI) tunnel attribute of an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) type 3 route,
• wherein the flag indicates a capability of an assisted replicator device;
• configure a source Internet protocol (IP) address of the packet based on the flag in the PMSI tunnel attribute indicating the capability of the assisted replicator device after receiving the packet,
• wherein the capability relates to whether the assisted replicator device is capable of retaining the source IP address of the packet as received from the provider edge device, and
• wherein the assisted replicator device is not configured to retain the source IP address of the packet;
• and
• provide the packet to at least some provider edge devices that are not multi-homed with the same customer edge device, of the one or more other provider edge devices, after configuring the source IP address of the packet.