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Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 24, 2013
Applicant:

Alcatel-lucent, Paris, FR;

Inventors:

Matthew Bocci, London, GB;

Paul Kwok, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shafiq Pirbhai, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 1/1883 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method for determining peer status in a pseudowire (PW) node, the method including: sending a first PW status request message to a peer node including a PW node local message ID, PW node remote message ID, and request flag; starting a first retry timer; starting a second retry timer when the first retry timer expires and no response to the first PW status request message is received; starting a first request timer when the second retry timer expires and no response to the first PW status request message is received; and starting a third retry timer when the first request timer expires and no response to the first PW status request message is received.


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