Protocol independent multicast (“PIM”) fault tolerant designated router (“DR”) election

    公开(公告)号:US10728137B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-28

    申请号:US16147008

    申请日:2018-09-28

    Abstract: The potential problem of traffic loss during a period when a second PIM router is elected DR after a first PIM router (on the same PIM interface) was previously elected DR and is transiting multicast traffic, is solved by (1) configuring a first interval on a PIM interface for at least the first PIM router; (2) responsive to the PIM interface of the first PIM router booting up, (i) starting, by the first PIM router, a timer corresponding to the configured first interval, (ii) determining, by the first PIM router, whether or not it is the DR on the PIM interface, (iii) upon determining that the timer has expired, redetermining, by the first PIM router, whether or not it is the DR on the PIM interface, and (iv) responsive to a redetermination that the first PIM router is the DR on the PIM interface, (A) increasing, by the first PIM router, a DR priority value of the first PIM router to reduce a likelihood that another of the at least two PIM routers will replace the first PIM router as DR, and (B) sending on the PIM interface, by the first PIM router, a PIM HELLO message including the increased DR priority value.

    MULTICAST SOURCE DISCOVERY PROTOCOL (MSDP) LOOP AVOIDANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20210392009A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-16

    申请号:US17247866

    申请日:2020-12-28

    Abstract: The disclosure describes techniques for enhancements to the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) to reduce Source Active (SA) message loops in one or more multicast domains having overlapping MSDP mesh groups. In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a first MSDP speaker, from a second MSDP speaker, a SA message. The method also includes, when the second MSDP speaker is in a mesh group with the first MSDP speaker, determining whether the first MSDP speaker includes an active SA state corresponding to the SA message. Additionally, the method includes, when the first MSDP speaker does not include the active SA state corresponding to the SA message, accepting the SA message and forwarding the SA message to a third MSDP speaker that is not in the mesh group with the first MSDP speaker and the second MSDP speaker.

    Multicast source discovery protocol (MSDP) loop avoidance

    公开(公告)号:US11582054B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US17247866

    申请日:2020-12-28

    Abstract: The disclosure describes techniques for enhancements to the Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) to reduce Source Active (SA) message loops in one or more multicast domains having overlapping MSDP mesh groups. In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a first MSDP speaker, from a second MSDP speaker, a SA message. The method also includes, when the second MSDP speaker is in a mesh group with the first MSDP speaker, determining whether the first MSDP speaker includes an active SA state corresponding to the SA message. Additionally, the method includes, when the first MSDP speaker does not include the active SA state corresponding to the SA message, accepting the SA message and forwarding the SA message to a third MSDP speaker that is not in the mesh group with the first MSDP speaker and the second MSDP speaker.

    Reducing open shortest path first protocol link flap

    公开(公告)号:US11088939B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-10

    申请号:US16166571

    申请日:2018-10-22

    Abstract: A first network device may determine that a link-state database (LSDB), associated with the first network device, includes a first link-state advertisement (LSA) instance associated with a second network device. The first network device may determine that the first network device has not received a second LSA instance, associated with the second network device, that does not include information identifying a fully adjacent link between the second network device and the first network device. The first network device may receive the second LSA instance associated with the second network device and may transmit, to the second network device, a third LSA instance, associated with the first network device, that includes the information identifying the fully adjacent link between the second network device and the first network device, only after the second LSA instance is received.

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