Patent ID: 9548930
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: maintaining, by a first network device in a first network, a set of data records that includes attributes for one or more routes to one or more network devices external to the first network; identifying, by the first network device in the first network, that a first route from among one or more routes to a second network device external to the first network utilizes active queue management; updating, by the first network device, the set of data records to record an attribute for the first route to the second network device that indicates that the first route utilizes active queue management outside the first network; selecting, by the first network device, for a new network packet flow from the first network to the second network device, the first route from among the one or more routes to the second network device based on the first route having the recorded attribute indicative that the first route utilizes active queue management and a recorded attribute for at least one other route to the second network device indicating that the at least one other route does not utilize active queue management outside the first network; and routing, by the first network device, the new network packet flow to an external network via the first route.