SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING BGP ROUTER TOPOLOGY

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for automatically precisely efficiently discovering a BGP router topology. SOLUTION: A system and method for discovering a routing topology within a domain of interest are disclosed. More particularly, the topology of a router which communicates by specif...

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Main Author TATMAN LANCE A
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 24.03.2005
Edition7
Subjects
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for automatically precisely efficiently discovering a BGP router topology. SOLUTION: A system and method for discovering a routing topology within a domain of interest are disclosed. More particularly, the topology of a router which communicates by specific protocol (example: BGP) is discoverable about the domain of interest. In accordance with certain embodiments, a discovery engine which enables auto-discovery of BGP routers in a specified domain of interest is provided. The BGP discovery engine can receive, as input, an identification of the domain of interest and a seed BGP router within the domain of interest, and can recursively query the BGP routers identified within the domain of interest for information to create the topology of the BGP routers in the domain of interest. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Bibliography:Application Number: JP20040240949