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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2003
Kendall William Harvey, Woodlawn, CA;
Ashley Lawton, Stittsville, CA;
Kendall William Harvey, Woodlawn, CA;
Ashley Lawton, Stittsville, CA;
Alcatel-Lucent Canada Inc., Kanata, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for facilitating an activity switch between a plurality of redundant routing modules in a network element is disclosed. Lower layer protocol packets, each encapsulating a higher layer protocol packet, are received at a lower layer task of a first routing module. The method first determines a peer network element In response to failure of a higher layer protocol task of the first routing module. The higher layer and lower layer protocol sessions between a second routing module and the peer network element are terminated following the determination of the peer network element, wherein the second routing module functions as a backup of the first routing module. The method then initiates a switchover from the first routing module to the second routing module of the network element.