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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsHarish Kumar Chandrappa, Adarsh Kirnelli Rangaiah, Milan Dasgupta, Daniel Max Firestone, Michal Czeslaw Zygmunt, Xinyan Zan, Rishabh Tewari, Eric Lawrence Albert Lantz, Deepak Bansal, Young Lee
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Described herein are systems and methods for supporting multicast for virtual networks. In some embodiments, a native multicast approach can utilized in which packet replication is performed on a host node of a virtual machine (VM) with a multicast data packet encapsulated in uniquely address unicast packets. In some embodiments, a network virtual appliance can be utilized. A multicast packet sent from the VM can be unicasted to the network virtual appliance. The multicast appliance can then replicate the packet into multiple copies and send the packets to the receivers in the virtual network as unicast data packets encapsulating the multicast packet.
A system for supporting multicast on a virtual network, comprising:
A method of supporting multicast on a virtual network, comprising:
A non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by a processor of a system, cause the system to:
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