Highly-available OSPF routing protocol

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7292535
APP PUB NO 20030218982A1
SERIAL NO

10153500

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In highly-available Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing in a network, the dynamic state of a backup OSPF instance in a router is synchronized with the dynamic state of an active OSPF instance using explicit message transmission from the active instance to the backup instance. After this, the dynamic state synchronization of the backup OSPF instance is maintained using a combination of explicit message updates from the active OSPF instance together with a message flow-through mechanism. In the event of fail-over of the active OSPF instance, then the router recovers seamlessly without reconfiguring or interrupting traffic among peer routers in the network, by functionally substituting the synchronized backup OSPF instance for the active OSPF instance, such that the backup OSPF instance establishes itself as the new active OSPF instance.

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  • CHIARO NETWORKS LTD.;FOUNDRY NETWORKS, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Folkes, Ronald P Dallas, TX 8 446
Visser, Lance A Dallas, TX 7 515
Watson, Thomas L Richardson, TX 20 394

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