Invention Application
- Patent Title: Multipoint Seamless Bi-Directional Forwarding Detection
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Application No.: US15927334Application Date: 2018-03-21
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Publication No.: US20190297005A1Publication Date: 2019-09-26
- Inventor: Carlos M. Pignataro , Nagendra Kumar Nainar , Vengada Prasad Govindan , Pawel Piotr Sowinski
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Main IPC: H04L12/761
- IPC: H04L12/761 ; H04L12/707 ; H04L12/749 ; H04L12/703 ; H04L12/723 ; H04L1/00

Abstract:
Multipoint seamless Bi-directional Forwarding Detection (BFD) may be provided. First, a discriminator and data identifying a headend device may be received by a node from the headend device. The discriminator may be received over a point-to-multipoint pseudowire between the node and the headend device. Next, the node may start a reflector session in response to receiving the discriminator. The reflector session may correspond to the discriminator and the data identifying the headend device. The reflector session may then receive a control packet from the headend device and determine that the control packet includes the discriminator. The control packet may be received over the point-to-multipoint pseudowire. Next, the reflector session on the node may send a reply packet to the headend device in response to determining that the control packet includes the discriminator. The reply packet may be sent over a unicast pseudowire between the node and the headend device.
Public/Granted literature
- US10536367B2 Multipoint seamless bi-directional forwarding detection Public/Granted day:2020-01-14
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