Method and apparatus for facilitating routing protocol redundancy in a network element

摘要

An embodiment of a method (100) and apparatus (400) for synchronizing routing protocol information associated with a plurality of routing modules (402,404) of a network element (400) is disclosed herein. The method includes an operation for adding an additional routing module (404) to a network element (400). The network element includes an existing routing module (402) having an existing collection of routing protocol information (414) associated therewith. In response to adding the additional routing module to the network element, an operation is performed for imparting the existing collection of routing protocol information upon the additional routing module. After updating the existing routing module (402) with new routing protocol information, an operation is performed for updating the additional routing module (404) with this new routing protocol information.