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US 8,576,698 B2Granted
Connectivity fault management timeout period control
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsBenjamin D. Washam, Lei Qiu, Xiaomei Han
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AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsBenjamin D. Washam, Lei Qiu, Xiaomei Han
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Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related system and machine-readable medium including one or more of the following: receiving, at the MEP, a connectivity fault management (CFM) message; determining whether the CFM message includes an indication specifying a new value for a timeout factor; and when the CFM message includes an indication specifying a new value for the timeout factor, using the new value as the timeout factor. One or more of the following may also be included: when the CFM message does not include an indication specifying a new timeout factor, using a default value as the timeout factor; determining a timeout period using at least the timeout factor; determining whether the timeout period has elapsed since a most recent CFM message was received; and when the timeout period has elapsed since the last CFM message was received, determining that a timeout has occurred.
A system for modifying a timeout period observed by a peer system, the system comprising:
A method performed by a maintenance endpoint (MEP) configured on a node in a communications network for modifying a timeout period used by a peer MEP in determining whether a timeout has occurred, the method comprising:
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution by a maintenance endpoint (MEP) for modifying a timeout period used by a peer MEP in determining whether a timeout has occurred, the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising:
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