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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2016
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Antoni Bronislaw Przygienda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alia Karin Atlas, Arlington, MA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed method may include (1) identifying, at a first node, a preconfigured level of the first node, (2) receiving, at the first node from a second node, a neighbor advertisement that includes a preconfigured level of the second node, (3) determining that a difference between the preconfigured level of the first node and the preconfigured level of the second node is equal to one, (4) recording, at the first node based on the difference being equal to one, an adjacency relationship between the first node and the second node, (5) transmitting a first type of routing-protocol packet from the first node to the second node based on the adjacency relationship, and (6) refraining from transmitting a second type of routing-protocol packet from the first node to the second node based on the adjacency relationship. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
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