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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
May. 06, 2016
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Pramodh D'Souza, San Jose, CA (US);
Sajjad Ahmed, Cupertino, CA (US);
Prasanna Chalapathy, San Jose, CA (US);
V. S. Jagannadham (Jack) Jonnalagadda, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for enabling dynamic reroute in a redundant system is provided. A network device is operative to determine whether a state of a link that couples the first network device with a third network device is active. In response to determining that the state of the link is active causing a payload of a packet to be forwarded towards the third network device through the second network interface of the first network device based on a second IP address; and responsive to determining that the state of the link is not active causing the second payload to be forwarded towards the third network device through a third network interface of the second network device based on the second IP address.