Method and system for active fabric management using unicast reachability monitoring
First Claim
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving a probe packet by a termination beacon, wherein the probe packet is associated with a first stream of a plurality of streams, wherein the stream is identified using an origin beacon identification (ID) for an origin beacon, a stream source IP address, a stream destination IP address, an L2 origin interface, and one selected from a group consisting of an IP hops value and a time to live (TTL) value;
generating, after receiving the probe packet and after the expiration of a probe rate request (PRR) refresh timer, a rate control packet (RCP) by the termination beacon wherein the RCP comprises a PRR for the stream each of the plurality of streams and a second PRR for a second stream of the plurality of streams; and
sending the RCP to the origin beacon using an origin beacon IP address, wherein the origin beacon IP address is different than the stream source IP address.
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Abstract
A method for active network fabric management. The method includes receiving a probe packet by a termination beacon, where the probe packet is associated with a stream, the stream is identified using an origin beacon identification (ID) for an origin beacon, a stream source IP address, a stream destination IP address, an L2 origin interface, and a TTL value or an IP Hop value. The method further includes generating, after receiving the probe packet and after the expiration of a probe rate request (PRR) refresh timer, a rate control packet (RCP) by the termination beacon where the RCP includes a PRR for the stream, and sending the RCP to the origin beacon using an origin beacon IP address, where the origin beacon IP address is different than the stream source IP address.
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21 Claims
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1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor perform a method, the method comprising:
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receiving a probe packet by a termination beacon, wherein the probe packet is associated with a first stream of a plurality of streams, wherein the stream is identified using an origin beacon identification (ID) for an origin beacon, a stream source IP address, a stream destination IP address, an L2 origin interface, and one selected from a group consisting of an IP hops value and a time to live (TTL) value; generating, after receiving the probe packet and after the expiration of a probe rate request (PRR) refresh timer, a rate control packet (RCP) by the termination beacon wherein the RCP comprises a PRR for the stream each of the plurality of streams and a second PRR for a second stream of the plurality of streams; and sending the RCP to the origin beacon using an origin beacon IP address, wherein the origin beacon IP address is different than the stream source IP address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor perform a method, the method comprising:
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generating a probe packet for a stream of a plurality of streams specified in an egress stream table (EST) in an origin beacon, wherein the stream is identified using an origin beacon identification (ID), a stream source IP address, a stream destination IP address, an L2 origin interface, and one selected from a group consisting of an IP hops value and a time to live (TTL) value; transmitting the probe packet from the origin beacon to a termination beacon, wherein the probe packet is transmitted using the L2 origin interface; and receiving, a rate control packet (RCP) from the termination beacon, wherein the RCP comprises a packet rate request (PRR) for the first stream of the plurality of streams and a second PRR for a second stream of the plurality of streams. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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