Procedimiento de establecimiento y borrado de caminos y de reenvío de tramas para conexiones de transporte y puente de red [METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AND CLEARING PATHS AND FORWARDING FRAMES FOR TRANSPORT CONNECTIONS, AND NETWORK BRIDGE]

Abstract

The present invention describes mechanisms that, in a network of transparent bridges, both seek and establish a specific path for each new TCP connection established between two terminals. The new path is established by the border bridge connected to the source terminal when receiving a TCP segment type SYN to establish a connection, encapsulating the said segment within a special path request packet that is resent by all network links and is responded to in unicast mode by the border bridge of the destination terminal through an acceptance package in which the SYN + ACK response segment of terminal S is encapsulated, the said packet confirming both the TCP connection as well as the chosen path between A and S. The path is automatically cleared after a certain period of time without the use of the connection or through exchanges of FIN segments in both directions of the connection.

Application number (OEPM): P201301133 (10.12.2013) | Publication number (1) (OEPM): ES2540595 A1 (10.07.2015) | Publication number (2) (OEPM): ES2540595 B2 (02.02.2016) | Patent granted (OEPM): 26.01.2016