A technique restores adjacencies between a non-stop forwarding (NSF) router and its neighboring routers during reload of routing protocol software on the NSF router within a computer network. When a new instance of the routing protocol software is re-loaded, each interface of the NSF router is placed...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US7065059?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7065059 - Technique for restoring adjacencies in OSPF in a non-stop forwarding intermediate node of a computer network
