A METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING BACKUP OF THE UPLINK

摘要

The embodiments of present invention disclose a method and a device for making uplink standby, including: configuring more than one uplink for an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) proxy device, and choosing one of the more than one uplink as a primary uplink; the IGN4P proxy device replicating a multicast packet received over the primary uplink and sending the multicast packet replicated over a downlink to a multicast host. In the method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, only the primary uplink is used, which reduces the link bandwidth waste of the multicast host and improves the multicast data transmission efficiency. Flexible methods are adopted for checking the availability of the primary uplink so that the IGMP proxy device may detect in real time whether the primary uplink is available and choose a new primary uplink in time to guarantee the normal multicast communication.