Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reliable multipath forwarding for encapsulation protocols
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Application No.: US14336839Application Date: 2014-07-21
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Publication No.: US09608858B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Rajiv Asati , Nagendra K. Nainar , Carlos M. Pignataro , George Swallow
- 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
- Agency: Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLC
- Agent James M. Behmke; Stephen D. LeBarron
- Main IPC: G01R31/08
- IPC: G01R31/08 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L12/707 ; H04L29/14 ; H04L12/703

Abstract:
In one embodiment, an ingress router sends a multipath information query across a computer network toward an egress router, and builds an entropy table based on received query responses. The entropy table maps the egress router to one or more available paths to the egress router, and associated entropy information for each respective available path of the one or more available paths. The ingress router may then forward traffic to the egress router using the entropy table to load share the traffic across the one or more available paths using the associated entropy information for each respective available path. In response to detecting a failure of a particular path of the one or more available paths, however, the ingress router then removes the particular path from the entropy table, thereby ceasing forwarding of traffic over the particular path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160020941A1 RELIABLE MULTIPATH FORWARDING FOR ENCAPSULATION PROTOCOLS Public/Granted day:2016-01-21
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