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Data driven route advertisement

  • US 8,085,755 B2
  • Filed: 04/01/2005
  • Issued: 12/27/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • inhibiting advertisement of a route while continuing to advertise other routes,whereinthe inhibiting is performed in response to determining that a data source is not sending data at a rate that exceeds a user-specified threshold,the route is an existing communications pathway via which packets can be sent to the data source,the data source is one of a set of redundant data sources, wherein the data source shares an address with another data source of the set of redundant data sources,the route is one of a plurality of routes to the set of redundant data sources,information identifying the route is stored in a routing table while the advertisement of that route is inhibited, andthe inhibiting prevents inclusion of the information identifying the route in a routing table update;

    detecting data sent by the data source, wherein the detecting is performed subsequently to the inhibiting; and

    allowing the advertisement of the route, in response to the data being detected.

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