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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Frederick David Sinn, Seattle, WA (US);
Leonard Thomas Tracy, Bothell, WA (US);
Stephen Callaghan, Seattle, WA (US);
Colin John Whittaker, Dublin, IE;
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices are described for transmitting and storing routing path information and routing topology information using a single protocol. In particular embodiments, routing path information for an exterior gateway protocol ('EGP') network such as a border gateway protocol ('BGP') network is transmitted throughout an interior gateway protocol (“IGP”) network using IGP messages such as open-shortest-path-first (“OSPF”) or intermediate state to intermediates state (“IS-IS”) messages. The IGP networks may transmit and store the BGP information using type length values (TLVs). As a result, network areas running an IGP may maintain BGP information throughout the network area without the overhead of an iBGP mesh and related message-passing.