Patent ID: 7664044

Claim:
A method for implementing a failure detection on an Internet Protocol (IP) forwarding plane, comprising: IP nodes obtaining Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) identifier information which is used in the BFD via an exchanged Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) packet between the IP nodes, and starting a BFD session between the IP nodes, wherein the IP nodes are two inter-domain IP nodes and the route is populated dynamically, the IP nodes encapsulating a BFD packet and transporting the BFD packet between the IP nodes running the BFD session; detecting a failure according to the BFD packet transported between the IP nodes; a peer IP node of the BFD session determining whether to stop a control layer BGP graceful restart process or not according to a C bit information of the BFD packet, and if the C bit is reset and the BFD session detects the failure, stopping the BGP graceful restart process; otherwise, if the C bit is configured and the BFD session detects the failure, continuing progress of the BGP graceful restarts.