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Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2012
Applicants:

Ing-wher Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Wenhu LU, San Jose, CA (US);

Alfred C. Lindem, Iii, Cary, NC (US);

Inventors:

Ing-Wher Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Wenhu Lu, San Jose, CA (US);

Alfred C. Lindem, III, Cary, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/703 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/28 (2013.01); H04L 45/123 (2013.01);
Abstract

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Non-stop Routing (NSR) with frozen standby LSDB is described. A network element includes a first OSPF instance initially acting as an active OSPF instance and a second OSPF instance initially acting as a standby OSPF instance. The second OSPF instance receives LSAs from the first OSPF instance and installs the LSAs in its LSDB. The LSAs in the LSDB are only aged by the active OSPF instance. If and when the second OSPF instance becomes the active OSPF instance, the second OSPF instance then ages the LSAs in the LSDB and processes each of the LSAs according to the aging of that LSA, where processing includes one of purging that LSA and refreshing that LSA.


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