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Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2020
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kapil Arora, Bangalore, IN;

Samson P. Ninan, Bangalore, IN;

Shraddha Hegde, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 43/0811 (2022.01); H04L 45/50 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described for selectively pinging certain devices along a segment routing label switched path (LSP) to detect failures in the segment routing LSP. For example, an ingress device comprises one or more processors operably coupled to a memory that are configured to: in response to a request to verify connectivity of a segment routing LSP, configure a FEC stack specifying a stack of segment routing labels for the segment routing LSP; for each of the one or more devices identified from the FEC stack: generate a respective MPLS connectivity request packet for a respective device identified from an outermost FEC of the FEC stack; send the MPLS connectivity request packet to the respective device; receive an MPLS connectivity response packet that verifies connectivity of the respective device; and in response, update the FEC stack by removing the outermost FEC of the FEC stack that identifies the respective device.


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