FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: method comprises the steps of: generating (S1) a set of multipoint ECMP routes for sending data between endpoints in the network, the ECMP multi-point routes contains a set of multipoint connection routes between the same endpoints, with each ECMP route from the set of multipoint ECMP routes contains a multi-point ECMP route having N endpoints and identified using a multicast address; creating (S2) a set of maintenance associations for the ECMP to monitor the generated ECMP routes between the endpoints; and using (S3) the created set of ECMP maintenance associations to send control packets; the method further comprising the steps of: identifying each multipoint ECMP route associated with two endpoints using a multicast MAC address; and building a group MAC address by performing an operation on the values of the trunk identifier associated with the multipoint ECMP routes.
EFFECT: increase the speed of data transfer.
8 cl, 4 dwg, 3 tbl
