Patent ID: 11968118
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 19, the instructions further comprising instructions that when executed cause one or more processors of a controller to, for each link of a plurality of links of the network:
determine whether a second node device of a pair of node devices connected by the respective link is configured to probe a total number of links less than or equal to a total number of links being probed by a first node device of the pair of node devices; and
responsive to the determination that the second node device is sending the total number of probes less than or equal to the total number of links being probed by the first node device, select the first node device to refrain from sending further probe packets to the second node device over the respective link.