Patent AT-E401719-T1: [Translated] TRAFFIC NETWORK FLOW CONTROL USING DYNAMIC MODIFIED MERITS FOR REDUNDANCY CONNECTIONS

Distance vector routing protocols such as the Routing Information Protocol fail to rapidly reconfigure to use redundant links. By modifying the outgoing advertised hop count upon detecting a failure in a connection for which a backup or redundant connection exists, incoming traffic is diverted to the redundant or backup connection. An artificially high hop count is advertised for a given port, and when a failure or loss of reachability occurs in a connection associated with that port, an advertisement of a lower hop count on the backup or redundant connection for the given port is triggered. This causes rapid rerouting of incoming traffic to the backup or redundant connection.