摘要:
A method is provided for preventing denial-of-service attacks on hosts attached to a subnet, where the attacks are initiated by a remote node over an external network. The method is performed by a router which forwards packets between the external network and the subnet. The router receives a packet for forwarding to a destination address in an address space of the subnet according to the IPv6 protocol and looks up the destination address in a Neighbor Discovery (ND) table. The ND table is populated by operations on the subnet that were completed prior to receipt of the packet. Entries in the ND table store address information of the hosts that have been verified by the router to be active. The router forwards the packet to the destination address if the destination address is stored in the ND table. Otherwise, the packet is discarded.
摘要:
A method implemented by a network topology design system, the network topology design system including a processing device. The method to determine placement of a controller within a network with a split architecture where control plane components of the split architecture network are executed by a controller and the control plane components are separate from data plane components of the split architecture network. The placement of the controller is selected to minimize disruption of the split architecture network caused by a link failure, a switch failure or a connectivity loss between the controller and the data plane components.
摘要:
A network element is described. In one embodiment includes receiving a packet from the host in the first domain at the network element in the first domain, the packet including a destination address to the host in the second domain, the destination address being formed by replacing an Interface Identifier of an IP address by a second domain label and a shortened Media Access Control (MAC) address, the second domain label identifying the second domain. A routing label and the shortened MAC address are attached to the received packet, and the packet is sent on a label switched path indicated by the label to the second domain.
摘要:
A method performed by a network element for providing micro-mobility in a network to a mobile node including the steps of receiving a registration request message at the mobility anchor point from an access router that is currently coupled to the mobile node, wherein the registration request message includes an endpoint identifier of the mobile node and a local care-of address of the mobile node, establishing a label switch path (LSP) between the mobility anchor point and the access router, storing the endpoint identifier in a binding entry along with the local care-of address, a regional care-of address, the label switch path and an egress interface, advertising the endpoint identifier with associated regional or local care-of address of the mobile node, and forwarding data packets, received at the mobility anchor point from a corresponding node that have the regional or local care-of address, to the mobile node using the LSP.
摘要:
A network element is described. In one embodiment includes receiving a packet from the host in the first domain at the network element in the first domain, the packet including a destination address to the host in the second domain, the destination address being formed by replacing an Interface Identifier of an IP address by a second domain label and a shortened Media Access Control (MAC) address, the second domain label identifying the second domain. A routing label and the shortened MAC address are attached to the received packet, and the packet is sent on a label switched path indicated by the label to the second domain.
摘要:
In response to a Mobile Access Router (MAR) initially attaching to a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) domain through a first Access Router (AR) in the domain, a Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) in the MPLS domain establishes a plurality of Label Switched Paths (LSPs) for the MAR. For example, the MAP establishes an active LSP to the MAR through the AR to which the MAR has initially attached, and further establishes an inactive LSP for the MAR to each of one or more other ARs in the MPLS domain. An inactive LSP established at a given AR for a given MAR is activated when/if that MAR attaches to the AR. Correspondingly, the present invention includes method and apparatus teachings related to the MAP, ARs and the MAR, as regards establishing inactive LSPs, activating inactive LSPs, and extending an activated LSP to the MAR.
摘要:
A network element disposed in a network, where the network element implements a process to manage load distribution across a plurality of network interfaces of the network. The network element redirects traffic flow directed toward the plurality of network interfaces in response to changes in configuration of the plurality of network interfaces, where each traffic flow is a set of protocol data units (PDUs), having an ordered delivery requirement, and where the PDUs are transmitted across the network between a source node and a destination node. The redirection process minimizes data traffic flow disruption when the load distribution is determined using a set of load distribution tables instead of a hashing algorithm.
摘要:
A method to provide load distribution that selects one of a set equal cost paths for each flow that minimizes imbalance in the distribution of flows across the set of equal cost paths, the method including calculating the set of equal cost paths to each destination node, generating a set of next hop discriminators for the set of equal cost paths, each next hop discriminator in the set of next hop discriminators to uniquely identify one of the equal cost next hops, populating the load distribution table by storing, according to a distribution mechanism, in each load distribution table entry one of the next hop discriminators from the set of next hop discriminators, receiving a first PDU from a first flow and performing a lookup of one of the next hop discriminators in the load distribution table by using values at the bit locations of the first PDU directly as an index into a CAM.
摘要:
A process is performed by a controller in a split-architecture network. The controller monitors congestion of traffic groups across the split-architecture network and executes the process to provide delay based data rate control to alleviate congestion of the traffic groups. The process includes configuring an ingress switch and egress switch for each traffic group to collect delay measurement data for data packets of each traffic group as they arrive at the ingress switch and egress switch. The delay measurement data is received from the ingress switch and egress switch of each traffic group. A check is made whether a minimum data packet delay for any traffic group exceeds a defined threshold value. A throttling rate is calculated for each traffic group in the split-architecture network, in response to the defined threshold value being exceeded.
摘要:
A network element disposed in a network, where the network element implements a process to manage load distribution across a plurality of network interfaces of the network. The network element redirects traffic flow directed toward the plurality of network interfaces in response to changes in configuration of the plurality of network interfaces, where each traffic flow is a set of protocol data units (PDUs), having an ordered delivery requirement, and where the PDUs are transmitted across the network between a source node and a destination node. The redirection process minimizes data traffic flow disruption when the load distribution is determined using a set of load distribution tables instead of a hashing algorithm.