Patent ID: 7613120
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A destination router comprising: a storage medium to store a first routing table; a routing module coupled to the storage medium, and configured to update the first routing table to create a first local route segment, in addition to a second local route segment, for routing packets to a destination device locally coupled with the destination router, the first and second local route segments to route packets received from a first and a second network to the destination device respectively, the first and second networks being different networks, the destination router being enabled to receive routed packets from both the first and second networks, and the destination router further configured to notify a source router of the first local route segment through a communication connection communicatively connecting the routers through the first network, the source router comprising a second routing table, the second routing table being initially configured to route packets destined for the destination device sent from one or more source devices through the second network, the second routing table being additionally updated with the first local route segment as a result of the notification, to enable the source router to route packets destined for the destination device sent from the one or more source devices through the first network instead, the one or more source devices being locally coupled with the source router.