MULTICAST ONLY FAST RE-ROUTE OVER REMOTE LOOP-FREE ALTERNATE BACKUP PATH

    公开(公告)号:US20170093612A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-30

    申请号:US14870941

    申请日:2015-09-30

    CPC classification number: H04L41/0654 H04L12/18 H04L12/185 H04L45/16

    Abstract: Techniques are described for enhancements to Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) to support multicast only fast re-route (MoFRR) over a remote loop free alternate (RLFA) backup path in a network. This disclosure describes a modified PIM control message having a new PIM message type and an additional field to indicate an address of a RLFA network device in the RLFA backup path. According to techniques of this disclosure, network devices along the RLFA backup path are configured to forward the modified PIM control message toward the RLFA network device instead of toward a source of a requested multicast group. When the RLFA network device receives the modified PIM control message, the RLFA network device is configured to forward a conventional PIM control message towards the source of the requested multicast group. In this way, PIM can be used to provide MoFRR over a RLFA backup path.

    Weighted multicast join load balance

    公开(公告)号:US12289231B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-29

    申请号:US18400881

    申请日:2023-12-29

    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, by an egress network device for a network, messages from each of a plurality of ingress network devices for the network, wherein each of the messages specifies a multicast source, a multicast group, and an upstream multicast hop weight value for multicast traffic for the multicast source and the multicast group; selecting, by the egress network device and based on the upstream multicast hop weight values specified by the received messages, one of the plurality of ingress network devices to which to send a multicast join message of a plurality of multicast join messages for the multicast source and multicast group; and sending, by the egress network device, the multicast join message to the selected one of the plurality of ingress network devices.

    Dynamic computation of SR-TE policy for SR-enabled devices connected over non-SR-enabled devices

    公开(公告)号:US12177134B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-24

    申请号:US17821219

    申请日:2022-08-22

    Abstract: Techniques are described for dynamically computing a segment routing policy for a segment routing for traffic engineering (SR-TE) path. For example, in a discontinuous SR network in which SR islands (e.g., groups of neighboring routers that are enabled for segment routing) are separated by one or more routers not enabled for segment routing, instead of returning a failure because one or more routers along a path are not enabled for SR, an ingress router may generate an SR-TE operations, administrations, and management (OAM) Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) traceroute packet send the packet to a first border router of the RSVP-enabled devices along a computed path to trigger the creation of a resource reservation Label Switched Path (LSP) through the RSVP-enabled devices. In this way, segment routed LSP may be established to tunnel through the resource reservation LSP for a SR-TE path used in an SR-TE policy.

    Determining shielded backup paths

    公开(公告)号:US11425034B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-23

    申请号:US17301272

    申请日:2021-03-30

    Abstract: An example network device includes a memory; and processing circuitry configured to: determine a primary path between the network device and a second network device; determine candidate backup paths between the network device and the second network device; in response to a determination that a first candidate backup path of the candidate backup paths satisfies a first priority criteria, select the first candidate backup path as a backup path; in response to a determination that a second candidate backup path of the candidate backup paths satisfies a second priority criteria, select the second candidate backup path as the backup path; and program a packet processor of the network device with the primary path and the backup path. The first priority criteria and the second priority criteria can be based on a risk of simultaneous failure of the primary path and a candidate backup path of the plurality of backup path.

    WEIGHTED MULTICAST JOIN LOAD BALANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20220060407A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-24

    申请号:US16996449

    申请日:2020-08-18

    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, by an egress network device for a network, messages from each of a plurality of ingress network devices for the network, wherein each of the messages specifies a multicast source, a multicast group, and an upstream multicast hop weight value for multicast traffic for the multicast source and the multicast group; selecting, by the egress network device and based on the upstream multicast hop weight values specified by the received messages, one of the plurality of ingress network devices to which to send a multicast join message of a plurality of multicast join messages for the multicast source and multicast group; and sending, by the egress network device, the multicast join message to the selected one of the plurality of ingress network devices.

    Multicast only fast re-route over remote loop-free alternate backup path

    公开(公告)号:US09860110B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-02

    申请号:US14870941

    申请日:2015-09-30

    CPC classification number: H04L41/0654 H04L12/18 H04L12/185 H04L45/16

    Abstract: Techniques are described for enhancements to Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) to support multicast only fast re-route (MoFRR) over a remote loop free alternate (RLFA) backup path in a network. This disclosure describes a modified PIM control message having a new PIM message type and an additional field to indicate an address of a RLFA network device in the RLFA backup path. According to techniques of this disclosure, network devices along the RLFA backup path are configured to forward the modified PIM control message toward the RLFA network device instead of toward a source of a requested multicast group. When the RLFA network device receives the modified PIM control message, the RLFA network device is configured to forward a conventional PIM control message towards the source of the requested multicast group. In this way, PIM can be used to provide MoFRR over a RLFA backup path.

    Weighted multicast join load balance

    公开(公告)号:US11516115B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-29

    申请号:US16996449

    申请日:2020-08-18

    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, by an egress network device for a network, messages from each of a plurality of ingress network devices for the network, wherein each of the messages specifies a multicast source, a multicast group, and an upstream multicast hop weight value for multicast traffic for the multicast source and the multicast group; selecting, by the egress network device and based on the upstream multicast hop weight values specified by the received messages, one of the plurality of ingress network devices to which to send a multicast join message of a plurality of multicast join messages for the multicast source and multicast group; and sending, by the egress network device, the multicast join message to the selected one of the plurality of ingress network devices.

    Weighted multicast join load balance

    公开(公告)号:US11477113B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-18

    申请号:US16996449

    申请日:2020-08-18

    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving, by an egress network device for a network, messages from each of a plurality of ingress network devices for the network, wherein each of the messages specifies a multicast source, a multicast group, and an upstream multicast hop weight value for multicast traffic for the multicast source and the multicast group; selecting, by the egress network device and based on the upstream multicast hop weight values specified by the received messages, one of the plurality of ingress network devices to which to send a multicast join message of a plurality of multicast join messages for the multicast source and multicast group; and sending, by the egress network device, the multicast join message to the selected one of the plurality of ingress network devices.

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