A method of detecting circular routing in a No. 7 signaling network is
provided which detects circular routing that occurs when operating the
signaling network, thereby preventing congestion of links by circular
routing and finding out any reasons for the link congestion. The method
detects a circular routing that occurs in three or more signaling
transfer points, by transmitting a message transfer part routing
verification test (MRVT) message through the signal route of the highest
priority among the signal routes in an available state which go to a
specific destination point code (DPC), only when a link is in an
unavailable state, thereby preventing congestion of links by circular
routing and finding out any reasons for the link congestion.