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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2013
Pradeep G Jain, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kanwar D Singh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jayant Kotalwar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nehal Bhau, San Jose, CA (US);
Wim Henderickx, Antwerp, BE;
Pradeep G Jain, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kanwar D Singh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jayant Kotalwar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nehal Bhau, San Jose, CA (US);
Wim Henderickx, Antwerp, BE;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus of failover indication of a Multicast Virtual Private Networking (MVPN) P-Tunnel at a leaf provider equipment (PE) router. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) attributes may be adapted to associate a BFD discriminator with a P-Tunnel terminated at the Leaf PE router such that BFD session status may be used to indicate a tunnel failure condition.