Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multicast message filtering in virtual environments
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Application No.: US15661836Application Date: 2017-07-27
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Publication No.: US10374951B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Omar Cardona , James B. Cunningham , Baltazar De Leon, III , Matthew R. Ochs
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent James L. Baudino
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; H04L12/741 ; H04L12/18 ; H04L29/06 ; G06F9/54 ; H04L12/58

Abstract:
Various systems, processes, and products may be used to filter multicast messages in virtual environments. In particular implementations, a system, process, and product for filtering multicast messages in virtual environments may include the ability to, responsive to receiving a multicast message including a destination address, examine a local filtering store of the network adapter for a multicast filtering address matching the destination address. The message is sent to respective virtual machines if the destination address matches the multicast filtering address found in the local filtering store for the respective virtual machines. Responsive to determining that the destination address does not match any multicast filtering address found in the local filtering store, a determination is made whether the local filtering store is full and, if so, the multicast message is dropped.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170324661A1 MULTICAST MESSAGE FILTERING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Public/Granted day:2017-11-09
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