Method of failure detection in an IP forwarding plane

• US 7,664,044 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2006
• Issued: 02/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhai, Suping
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo; Ricky
• Assistant Examiner(s): Samuel; Dewanda
• Application Number:
  US11/526,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20070189177A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,239 Days
• Field of Search: 370/216, 370/217, 370/242, 370/248, 370/244, 370/245, 370/241, 370/249, 370/250, 370/271
• US Class Current: 370/242
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/10 Routing in connection-oriented networks, e.g. X.25 or ATM
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/28 using route fault recovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/50 using label swapping, e.g. multi-protocol label switch [MPLS]

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.

Claims

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.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the BGP packet is a BGP OPEN packet, the BFD identifier information is carried in a new Capability Code of the BGP OPEN packet;

the new Capability Code is added in a Capability option of the BGP OPEN packet.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the IP nodes obtain the BFD identifier information and start the BFD session comprises:

starting the BGP session after the BFD session startup.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, the IP nodes encapsulate the BFD packet by is:

encapsulating the packet by a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packet.