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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2012
Alain J. Cohen, Washington, DC (US);
Pradeep K. Singh, Arlington, VA (US);
Vinod Jeyachandran, Rockville, MD (US);
Nitin Gupta, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Alain J. Cohen, Washington, DC (US);
Pradeep K. Singh, Arlington, VA (US);
Vinod Jeyachandran, Rockville, MD (US);
Nitin Gupta, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Riverbed Technology, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A simulator simulates routing system protocols to build routing tables corresponding to a modeled network, and a comparator compares the routing tables in the actual network to these simulator-created routing tables. Because the modeled system represents a fault-free version of the actual system, and assuming that the modeled routing system protocols are representative of the algorithms used in the actual routers, these simulator-produced routing tables can represent steady-state routing tables that should be present in the routers of the actual network at steady state. By querying each router in the actual network for its routing table and comparing each routing table to the corresponding simulator-produced routing table, any differences from the steady state can be identified.