DYNAMICALLY DETECTING MULTIHOMED NETWORK DEVICES AND ALLOCATING PROTECTION GROUP IDENTIFIERS

    公开(公告)号:EP4366265A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-08

    申请号:EP23161277.1

    申请日:2023-03-10

    IPC分类号: H04L45/16 H04L45/28

    CPC分类号: H04L45/16 H04L45/28

    摘要: A first network device may receive a first advertisement of a network destination from a second network device and may detect multihoming with the second network device. The second network device may detect the multihoming with the first network device. The first network device and the second network may enable egress protection for the multihoming. The first network device may allocate, from a first pool, a protection group identifier for a group of multihomed network devices and may allocate, from a second pool, a network destination identifier for the network destination. The first network device may provide, to a network and the second network device, a second advertisement that includes the protection group identifier and the network destination identifier. The protection group identifier and the network destination identifier may cause the network to direct traffic for the network destination, via the group of multihomed network devices.

    BIT INDEX EXPLICIT REPLICATION (BIER)FORWARDING FOR NETWORK DEVICE COMPONENTS

    公开(公告)号:EP3041180B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-12

    申请号:EP15178621.7

    申请日:2015-07-28

    摘要: A network device receives multicast packets that include information identifying destinations in the network, identifies next hops associated with the destinations, and populates a cache with the destinations and addresses of the identified next hops. The network device receives a particular multicast packet that includes information identifying particular destinations included in the cache, identifies one or more next hops for the particular destinations from the cache, and forwards the particular multicast packet to the identified one or more next hops to permit the identified one or more next hops to forward the multicast packet toward the particular destinations.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICE INTERWORKING

    公开(公告)号:EP4429188A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-11

    申请号:EP23211384.5

    申请日:2023-11-22

    摘要: An interworking network device receives from a first other network device associated with an MPLS domain, a route that includes a label, a prefix, and a next-hop identifier that indicates the first other network device. The interworking network device thereby generates a prefix SID attribute that includes a SID value and information indicating a structure of the SID value, wherein a LOC portion of the SID value identifies the interworking network device, and a first sub-portion of a FUNCT portion of the SID value identifies an endpoint behavior of the interworking network device in association with the first other network device. The interworking network device modifies the route to cause the next-hop identifier to indicate the interworking network device, and to cause the route to include the prefix SID attribute. The interworking network device thereby sends the route to a second other network device associated with an SRv6 domain.

    BITMASK ROUTE TARGET IN TARGETED DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION USING A ROUTING PROTOCOL

    公开(公告)号:EP3913871A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-24

    申请号:EP21175190.4

    申请日:2021-05-21

    摘要: Techniques are described by which a routing protocol, such as border gateway protocol (BGP), is extended to control propagation and importation of information using route targets (RTs) specified as bitmasks that encode link administrative group information. For example, a network control device (e.g., controller) is configured to allocate one or more subset of resources (e.g., nodes or links) of an underlay network to each of one or more virtual networks established over the underlay network. The controller generates a bitmask encoded with link administrative group information of the one or more links. The controller then outputs, to a plurality of provider edge (PE) routers that are participating in a respective virtual network, a routing protocol message to advertise the one or more subset of resources, wherein the routing protocol message includes a route target specified as the bitmask.

    APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CONTROLLER-BASED MULTICAST SIGNALING

    公开(公告)号:EP3382956A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-03

    申请号:EP18154526.0

    申请日:2018-01-31

    发明人: ZHANG, Zhaohui

    摘要: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving, at an upstream router of a multicast distribution tree, a packet that is destined for a receiver within an MPLS network, (2) identifying within the packet (A) a context label that specifies a controller and (B) a tree label that is assigned by the controller, (3) identifying a forwarding table that corresponds to the context label identified within the packet, (4) searching the forwarding table that corresponds to the context label for the tree label that specifies the multicast distribution tree, (5) identifying, based at least in part on the search, a downstream router of the multicast distribution tree that is to receive the packet on the way to the receiver, and then (6) forwarding the packet to the downstream router of the multicast distribution tree on the way to the receiver. Various other methods, systems, and apparatuses are also disclosed.