COMPRESSION OF ROUTING INFORMATION EXCHANGES

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for improving the exchange of routing information between information handling system by using compression. In embodiments, route information may be packetized as normally performed according to protocol. In embodiments, these packets may be compressed and placed into the data/payload portion of a new format packet. In embodiments, the new format packet includes an extended header with one or more fields that provide information related to the compressed packets in the packet payload. A receiving device receives the new packets with compressed data, decompresses the data, and processes the decompress data packets as per the normal protocol procedures.

主权项

1. An information handling system for preventing traffic loss of data, the information handling system comprising:
a plurality of ports for facilitating the switching or routing of data to and/or from one or more peer information handling systems communicatively coupled to the information handling system; one or more processors that are communicatively coupled to the plurality of ports; a data store, communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, for storing routing information; and a non-transitory memory comprising one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes steps to be performed comprising:
receiving route-related information at the information handling system;establishing a routing information exchange session with a second information handling system;generating a set of routing information packets;compressing the set of routing information packets; andgenerating a compressed routing information packet, the compressed routing information packet comprising:
a data payload comprising at least some of the routing information packets that have been compressed; andan extended header comprising: (1) an indicator that identifies a total number of the routing information packets that have been compressed and included in the data payload, and (2) an indicator that identifies a total number of bytes of the routing information packets that have been compressed and included in the data payload before they were compressed.