Method and system for optimized switchover of redundant forwarding engines

摘要

A method of failure recovery in a network element (100) is disclosed. The method includes indicating to a number of forwarding engines (120(1) - (N+1)) that a forwarding engine has completed a switchover operation and causing at least one of the forwarding engines (120(1) - (N+1)) to acknowledge that the forwarding engine has completed the switchover operation in response to the indication.