Intermediate switch identification
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsTimothy Ireland, Simon McCormack, David C. Fogaren, Jr., Richard Ings
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Abstract
A system to facilitate identification of intermediate switches within a network switching fabric is described. The system includes a processor and a machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to discover a host neighbor advertisement message received at a network virtualization infrastructure from an intermediary switch, receive a neighbor advertisement message from the intermediary switch via a top of rack (TOR) switch and identify a location of the intermediary switch within the network switching fabric based on the host neighbor advertisement message and the neighbor advertisement message.
Claims20
A system to facilitate identification of intermediate switches within a network switching fabric, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
- discover a host neighbor advertisement message received at a virtualization infrastructure from an intermediary switch;
- receive a neighbor advertisement message from the intermediary switch via a top of rack (TOR) switch;
- and
- identify a location of the intermediary switch within the network switching fabric based on the host neighbor advertisement message and the neighbor advertisement message.
A method to facilitate identification of intermediate switches within a network switching fabric, comprising:
- discovering a host neighbor advertisement message received at a virtualization infrastructure from an intermediary switch;
- receiving a neighbor advertisement message from the intermediary switch via a top of rack (TOR) switch;
- and
- identifying a location of the intermediary switch within the network switching fabric based on the host neighbor advertisement message and the neighbor advertisement message.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- discover a host neighbor advertisement message received at a virtualization infrastructure from an intermediary switch;
- receive a neighbor advertisement message from the intermediary switch via a top of rack (TOR) switch;
- and
- identify a location of the intermediary switch within the network switching fabric based on the host neighbor advertisement message and the neighbor advertisement message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.