Patent ID: 11909542
Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A computer system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more machine-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing computer program code comprising sets of instructions executable by the one or more processors to:
receive a first message from a gateway device over a network connection, the first message including first neighbor information and one or more flags indicating that the first neighbor information is used to establish protocol-independent multicast neighborship;
modify a protocol-independent multicast neighbor table based on the first neighbor information; and
send a second message to the gateway device over the network connection, the second message including second neighbor information and the one or more flags indicating that the second neighbor information is used to establish protocol-independent multicast neighborship.