Patent ID: 11902148
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
receiving, by the egress network device, a further message from a further ingress network device for the network, the message specifying the multicast source and multicast group, wherein the further message does not include a field specifying an upstream multicast hop weight value; and
in response to receiving the further message, assuming, by the egress network device a default upstream multicast hop value for the further ingress network device,
wherein determining the proportion of multicast join messages comprises determining, by the egress network device and based on the default upstream multicast hop value and the upstream multicast weight values specified by the received messages, a proportion of multicast join messages to send to each of the plurality of ingress network devices and the further ingress network device for the multicast source and multicast group.