Patent ID: 7184405

Claim:
A method for setting up a connection for a communication network having a multiplicity of network nodes networked via links, comprising: determining routes to destination network nodes of connection destinations for the network nodes; allocating, in the network nodes, an allocation rule based on the determined routes, wherein, based on the allocation rule, a forwarding information item is allocated to a link leading to the destination network node and to a new forwarding information item for each destination network node; and transmitting a setup message from an originating network node to one of the destination network nodes to prepare a subsequent transmission of data, such that a forwarding information item included in the setup message is to be read out, and using the allocation rule, forwarding the setup message via a link allocated to the forwarding information item in the network node, after replacement of the forwarding information item in the setup message by the new forwarding information item allocated to the former forwarding information item.