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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2006
Anantha Ramaiah, San Jose, CA (US);
Keyur Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
David D. Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
Robert Raszuk, Kommorrow, PL;
Anantha Ramaiah, San Jose, CA (US);
Keyur Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
David D. Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
Robert Raszuk, Kommorrow, PL;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices executing routing protocols can mark routing protocol messages as urgent so that peer devices are signaled to consume the messages on an expedited basis. Performance of routing protocols improves as a result; for example, Border Gateway Protocol convergence time is reduced. An example router comprises a network interface, a processor, a transport layer protocol module that implements a transport layer network protocol, a routing protocol module that implements a network packet routing protocol and sends peering session messages over transport layer connections, and instructions to perform providing a first routing protocol message to the transport layer protocol module that comprises urgent data at least in part; requesting the transport layer protocol module to mark, as urgent, one or more data segments that carry the first routing protocol message; marking, as urgent, one or more segments that carry the first routing protocol message; and sending the segments to peer devices over the connections.