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

Claim 17:
18. The network device of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
receive 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
assume, in response to receiving the further message, a default upstream multicast hop value for the further ingress network device,
wherein the one or more processors being configured to determine the proportion of multicast join messages comprises the one or more processors being configured to determine, 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.