Method of failure detection in an IP forwarding plane
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1. A method for implementing a failure detection on an Internet Protocol (IP) forwarding plane, comprising:
- IP nodes obtaining Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) identifier information which is used in the BFD via an exchanged Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) packet between the IP nodes, and starting a BFD session between the IP nodes, wherein the IP nodes are two inter-domain IP nodes and the route is populated dynamically,the IP nodes encapsulating a BFD packet and transporting the BFD packet between the IP nodes running the BFD session;
detecting a failure according to the BFD packet transported between the IP nodes;
a peer IP node of the BFD session determining whether to stop a control layer BGP graceful restart process or not according to a C bit information of the BFD packet, and if the C bit is reset and the BFD session detects the failure, stopping the BGP graceful restart process;
otherwise, if the C bit is configured and the BFD session detects the failure, continuing progress of the BGP graceful restarts.
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Abstract
A method of failure detection on an Internet Protocol (IP) forwarding plane, which includes: IP nodes of the two ends obtain Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) identifier information which is used in the BFD, moreover start a BFD session, encapsulate and transport a BFD packet between the IP nodes running the BFD session and implement the failure detection according to the BFD packet transported between the IP nodes. The method of this invention realizes the failure detection via starting the BFD session and via transporting the BFD packet between the inter-domain IP nodes or the intra-domain IP nodes.
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1. A method for implementing a failure detection on an Internet Protocol (IP) forwarding plane, comprising:
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IP nodes obtaining Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) identifier information which is used in the BFD via an exchanged Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) packet between the IP nodes, and starting a BFD session between the IP nodes, wherein the IP nodes are two inter-domain IP nodes and the route is populated dynamically, the IP nodes encapsulating a BFD packet and transporting the BFD packet between the IP nodes running the BFD session; detecting a failure according to the BFD packet transported between the IP nodes; a peer IP node of the BFD session determining whether to stop a control layer BGP graceful restart process or not according to a C bit information of the BFD packet, and if the C bit is reset and the BFD session detects the failure, stopping the BGP graceful restart process;
otherwise, if the C bit is configured and the BFD session detects the failure, continuing progress of the BGP graceful restarts. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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