Patent ID: 8085755

Claim:
A method comprising: inhibiting advertisement of a route while continuing to advertise other routes, wherein the inhibiting is performed in response to determining that a data source is not sending data at a rate that exceeds a user-specified threshold, the route is an existing communications pathway via which packets can be sent to the data source, the data source is one of a set of redundant data sources, wherein the data source shares an address with another data source of the set of redundant data sources, the route is one of a plurality of routes to the set of redundant data sources, information identifying the route is stored in a routing table while the advertisement of that route is inhibited, and the inhibiting prevents inclusion of the information identifying the route in a routing table update; detecting data sent by the data source, wherein the detecting is performed subsequently to the inhibiting; and allowing the advertisement of the route, in response to the data being detected.