Patent ID: 8537660

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a first event associated with a first transport layer connection; only in response to determining that a first request to configure the first transport layer connection, maintained at an active transport protocol process, for stateful switchover was received at a network element comprising the active transport protocol process coupled to a first standby transport protocol process: creating a message containing replicated event information based on the received first event; and in response to determining that the first transport layer connection is an existing connection, processing the message at the first standby transport protocol process to indicate that the first transport layer connection is the existing connection, otherwise, processing the message at the first active transport protocol process to establish a new connection, send a control block of the new connection to the first standby transport protocol process, and replicate state information for the first transport layer connection; wherein the first request is to configure any of: an existing connection and a new connection; receiving a second event associated with a second transport layer connection maintained at the active transport protocol process; and in response to determining that a second request to configure the second transport layer connection for stateful switchover was not received, processing the second event without sending any message to a second standby transport protocol process.