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Method and system for active fabric management using unicast reachability monitoring

  • US 9,397,912 B2
  • Filed: 08/06/2013
  • Issued: 07/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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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:

  • 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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