Method, system of fault detection for pseudo wires and service provider edge router thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9407528-B2
Application number	US-41184409-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2009
Priority date	Sep 28, 2006
Publication date	Aug 2, 2016
Grant date	Aug 2, 2016

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method, system of fault detection for pseudo wires (PW) and a provider edge router (PE) thereof. The method includes the following. A remote PE receives, from a local PE, a first bonding relationship between a PW and an LSP of which the starting point is the local PE. After the remote PE detects a fault of the LSP, the remote PE determines a fault of the PW based on the detected fault of the LSP, a second bonding relationship between the PW and an LSP of which the starting point is the remote PE, and the received first bonding relationship, wherein the second bonding relationship is pre-configured at the remote PE. The method, system and PE of fault detection for a pseudo wire according to embodiments of the present invention can detect a fault of the PW precisely, ensuring the consistency of PW statuses detected by PEs at the two ends of the PW.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of fault detection, comprising:
receiving, by a first service provider edge router (PE), a first bonding relationship from a second PE, wherein the first bonding relationship is between a pseudo wire PW and a first label switching path (LSP) that is from the second PE to the first PE, the first PE is an ending point of the first LSP, the second PE is a starting point of the first LSP and the second PE is coupled with a router different from the first PE;
detecting, by the first PE, a fault of the first LSP by the first PE;
and determining, by the first PE, a fault of the PW based on: the detected fault of the first LSP, a second bonding relationship between the PW and a second LSP of which the starting point is the first PE, wherein the second bonding relationship is pre-configured at the first PE, and the received first bonding relationship.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first bonding relationship is carried in a label mapping message or in a Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) notification message.

3. A method of fault detection, comprising:
receiving, by a first service provider edge router (PE) from a second PE, a first bonding relationship between a pseudo wire (PW) and a first label switching path (LSP) of which a starting point is the second PE, wherein the direction of the first LSP is from the second PE to the first PE, the second PE is the starting point of the first LSP and the first PE is an ending point of the first LSP;
detecting a fault of the first LSP by the first PE;
and determining a fault of the PW based on:
the detected fault of the first LSP,
a second bonding relationship between the PW and a second LSP of which the starting point is the first PE, wherein the second bonding relationship is pre-configured at the first PE, and
the first bonding relationship, wherein the first bonding relationship is carried in a label mapping message or in a Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) notification message, wherein when the first bonding relationship is carried in the label mapping message, the first bonding relationship is carried in a PW Interface Parameters Type-Length-Value (PW Interface Parameters TLV) field;
and wherein the first bonding relationship is carried in the LDP notification message, the first bonding relationship is carried in an LSP Operation Administration and Maintenance Type-Length-Value(OAM TLV) field; or an LSP-PW relationship TLV field.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein,
if an LSP fault detection mechanism is already running when the PW is being set up, the second PE sends the label mapping message carrying the first bonding relationship to the first PE;
if the LSP fault detection mechanism is not running when the PW is being set up, the second PE sends the LDP notification message carrying the first bonding relationship to the first PE.

5. The method of claim 1 , characterized in that, detecting the fault of the first LSP by first PE comprises:
detecting the fault of the first LSP by running a bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) protocol or a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) OAM protocol.

6. A system of fault detection for pseudo wires (PW), comprising:
a first provider edge router (PE), adapted to send, to a second PE, a first bonding relationship between a PW and a first label switching path (LSP) of which a starting point is the first PE, wherein direction of the first LSP is from the first PE to the second PE, the first PE is coupled with a router different from the second PE;
and the second PE, adapted to receive the first bonding relationship, detect a fault of the first LSP, determine a fault of the PW based on the detected fault of the first LSP, the received first bonding relationship, and a pre-configured second bonding relationship between the PW and a second LSP of which the starting point is the second PE.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the first bonding relationship is carried in a label mapping message or in a Label Distribution Protocol (LDP notification message.

8. A provider edge router (PE), comprising:
a bonding relationship receiving module, adapted to receive a bonding relationship sent from a remote PE, wherein the received bonding relationship is a bonding relationship between a pseudo wire (PW) and a first label switching path (LSP) of which a starting point is the remote PE, direction of the first LSP is from the remote PE to the PE and the PE is coupled with a router different from the remote PE;
an LSP fault detection module, adapted to detect a fault of the first LSP;
and a PW fault detection module, adapted to determine a fault of the PW base on:
the detected fault of the first LSP,
a pre-configured bonding relationship between the PW and a second LSP of which the starting point is the PE, and the bonding relationship received by the bonding relationship receiving module.

9. The PE of claim 8 , wherein the PW fault detection module comprises:
an LSP fault acquisition sub-module, adapted to acquire the fault of the first LSP from the LSP fault detection module;
a bonding relationship acquisition sub-module, adapted to acquire the pre-configured bonding relationship between the PW and the second LSP and acquire the bonding relationship received by the bonding relationship receiving module;
and a PW fault query sub-module, adapted to use the faulty LSP which is acquired by the LSP fault acquisition sub-module as an index to query the bonding relationship obtained by the bonding relationship acquisition sub-module and find the faulty PW.

10. The method of claim 2 , wherein when the first bonding relationship is carried in the label mapping message, the first bonding relationship is carried in a PW Interface Parameters Type-Length-Value (PW Interface Parameters TLV) field;
and when the first bonding relationship is carried in the LDP notification message, the first bonding relationship is carried in an LSP Operation Administration and Maintenance Type-Length-Value (OAM TLV) field; or an LSP-PW relationship TLV field.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the fault of the PW comprises:
querying the second bonding relationship and the first bonding relationship using the faulty LSP as an index;
and obtaining the faulty PW.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a processor in a provider edge router (PE) to:
receive a first bonding relationship from another PE, wherein the first bonding relationship is between a pseudo wire PW and a first label switching path (LSP) that is from the another PE to the PE, the another PE is a starting point of the first LSP, the PE is an ending point of the first LSP and the PE is coupled with a router different from the first PE;
detecting a fault of the first LSP;
and determining a fault of the PW based on the detected fault of the first LSP, a second bonding relationship between the PW and a second LSP of which the starting point is the first PE, wherein the second bonding relationship is pre-configured at the first PE, and the received first bonding relationship.

Assignees

• Zi Kang
• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zi Kang

Classifications

• H04L45/00 Primary

  Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks (routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00) · CPC title

• H04L45/50

  using label swapping, e.g. multi-protocol label switch [MPLS] · CPC title

• H04L45/28

  using route fault recovery · CPC title

• H04L43/0817

  by checking functioning · CPC title

• H04L12/2856

  Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access (asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W) · CPC title