Bootstrapping fault detection sessions over a P2MP tunnel
US8885484B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 25, 2011 |
| Grant date | Nov 11, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 24, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L45/50
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for detecting faults associated with a tunnel delivering multicast traffic from a source provider edge router (PE) to each of a plurality of destination PEs, the method using a routing protocol such as BGP to communicate route information to destination PEs, and a fault detection protocol such as BFD to detect tunnel faults.
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