Technique for efficiently performing optional TTL propagation during label imposition
Patent 5991300 Issued on November 23, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date: September 8, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
A router (10) in a packet-based telecommunications system assembles an outgoing packet by inserting between an incoming packet's link-layer and network-layer headers a shim header containing a label that the next-hop router will use as an index into its forwarding table. The shim header also includes a time-to-live field, and the router determines on a case-by-case basis whether to propagate into that field the value from a corresponding time-to-live field in the incoming packet's network-layer header. Specifically, the router computes the output packet's shim-header time-to-live value by decrementing the result of a bitwise OR operation in which the operands are the network-layer time-to-live value and a switch value that the router fetches from its forwarding-table entry for the incoming packet's destination. This propagates the incoming network-layer time-to-live information into the shim header if the switch value's bits are all logical zeros but not if they are all logical ones.
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