ROUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSPARENTLY RECOVERING ROUTING STATES AFTER A FAILOVER OR DURING A SOFTWARE UPGRADE

Methods and apparatus for efficiently enabling routing states to be recovered after a failover or during a software upgrade in a system which supports graceful restart and stateful switchover are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for restarting a network device wh...

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Hauptverfasser: FRIEDMAN, Barry, SHAH, Himanshu, APPANNA, Chandrashekhar, SURI, Shyam, KAPOOR, Ruchi, NALAWADE, Gargi, HARPER, John
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:Methods and apparatus for efficiently enabling routing states to be recovered after a failover or during a software upgrade in a system which supports graceful restart and stateful switchover are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for restarting a network device which has a plurality of routers and is in communication with a first peer being arranged to support graceful restart and a second peer includes performing a graceful restart with respect to the first peer. A peer transparent failover is performed with respect to the second peer. The graceful restart and the peer transparent failover are performed in response to a failure associated with the network device.