Arista Networks, Inc.

Joanne Mikkelson

Sharad Birmiwal

Jesper Skriver

Asang Kamalakar Dani

Isidoros Kouvelas

Salam Noureddine

A networking system may facilitate Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) switchover between an active BGP process and a standby BGP process. A method is provided that includes using the active BGP process to establish a first communication session with a peer and a second communication session with the standby BGP process and using an active kernel associated with the active BGP process to receive a packet from the peer, to transmit the packet to the standby BGP process, and to receive the packet returning from the standby BGP process. The active kernel can optionally be used to determine whether any packets are in-flight to and from the standby BGP process.

Input state synchronization for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) processes

A networking system may perform a border gateway protocol (BGP) switchover from an active BGP process to a standby BGP process. The standby BGP process may obtain transport layer protocol state information, for a given time, of a transport layer session for the active BGP process. The standby BGP process may update the transport layer protocol state information based on BGP messages conveyed, after the given time, over the transport layer session and forwarded to the standby BGP process. Based on a BGP switchover criterion being met, a replacement transport layer session may be set up using the updated transport layer protocol state information. The replacement transport layer session continues the transport layer session after the BGP switchover.

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Joanne Mikkelson