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US 12,003,430 B2Granted
Systems and methods for control and management of shared logical ports on a network processor
AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorsRavil Baizhiyenov, Adam Sweeney, John Nelson, Daniel Cunningham, Kewei Shi
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Abstract
In general, embodiments relate to a method for managing a network device. The method includes detecting a change of at least one physical port on the network device; and in response to detecting the change, disabling the at least one physical port, wherein disabling the at least one physical port prevents the at least one physical port from being allocated to any logical port on a network processor in the network device.
Claims20
A method for managing a network device, comprising:
- operating the network device having a plurality of physical ports, wherein the plurality of physical ports are allocated to one or more of a plurality of logical ports according to a first allocation;
- detecting that a new physical port has been added to the network device;
- in response to detecting that the new physical port has been added to the network device, disabling the new physical port;
- preventing allocation of any disabled physical ports;
- keeping the new physical port in a disabled state until an indication from a user to enable the new physical port is received;
- in response to receiving the indication from the user, enabling the new physical port and allocating the enabled new physical port to the one or more of the plurality of logical ports.
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A method for managing a network device, comprising:
- operating the network device having a plurality of physical ports, wherein the plurality of physical ports are allocated to one or more of a plurality of logical ports according to a first allocation;
- detecting a change of at least one physical port on the network device;
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- in response to detecting the change, disabling the at least one physical port, preventing allocation of any disabled physical ports;
- keeping the at least one physical port in a disabled state until an indication from a user to enable the at least one physical port is received;
- in response to receiving the indication from the user, enabling the at least one physical port and allocating the enabled at least one physical port to the one or more of the plurality of logical ports.
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A network device, comprising:
- a first transceiver slot comprising a first plurality of ports,
- a network processor comprises a plurality of logical ports;
- a processor;
- a configuration engine configured to perform a method when executed on the processor, the method comprising:
- operating according to a first allocation of the plurality of physical ports to one or more of the plurality of logical ports,
- detecting insertion of a second transceiver slot, wherein the second transceiver slot comprises a second plurality of physical ports, and
- in response to detecting the insertion, disabling the second plurality of physical ports,
- preventing allocation of any disabled physical ports,
- keeping the new physical port in a disabled state until an indication from a user to enable the new physical port is received, and
- in response to receiving the indication from the user, enabling the new physical port and allocating the enabled new physical port to the one or more of the plurality of logical ports.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.