METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR STANDARD PROTOCOL VALIDATION MECHANISMS DEPLOYED OVER A SWITCH FABRIC SYSTEM

• US 20140341045A1
• Filed: 08/01/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Juniper Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Juniper Networks Incorporated
• Inventors: Mehra, Ashwani Kumar, Rajamani, Srikar, Saksena, Saurabh
• Granted Patent: US 9,438,533 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/241.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0654 using network fault recovery ring fault isolation or reconfiguration in loop networks without recovery actions by a network management system H04L12/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/24 Multipath
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/28 using route fault recovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/74 Address processing for routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/25 Routing or path finding in a switch fabric
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic

Abstract

An apparatus includes a destination edge device configured to receive a first validation packet according to a switch fabric validation protocol. The destination edge device is configured to validate multiple data paths through a distributed switch fabric from a source edge device to the destination edge device based on the first validation packet. The destination edge device is configured to send, in response to receiving the first validation packet, a second validation packet to a peripheral processing device. The destination edge device is also configured to send the second validation packet according to a validation protocol different from the first validation protocol.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a destination edge device configured to receive a first validation packet according to a switch fabric validation protocol, the destination edge device configured to validate a plurality of data paths through a distributed switch fabric from a source edge device to the destination edge device based on the first validation packet,

the destination edge device configured to send, in response to receiving the first validation packet, a second validation packet to a peripheral processing device, the destination edge device configured to send the second validation packet according to a validation protocol different from the switch fabric validation protocol.