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US 2015/0146744 A1Published application
Automatic configuration of a repeater
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsMagesh Valliappan, Sameer Kanhaiyalal Shah, Sundararajan Chidambara, Anand Kumar Pathak
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an in-band process to inform an external repeater of a desired new configuration or mode of operation. After negotiation of rate and other information during an auto-negotiation routine, a network node sends configuration information to a network element, such as an external network repeater.
Claims20
A network system, comprising:
- a plurality of network repeater ports, where a port from among the plurality of network repeater ports sends and receives network data;
- and
- a serial and deserializer (SerDes) associated with the port, wherein the SerDes is operable to identify a configuration setting from incoming data received from an external network node and to automatically determine a mode of operation before passing the data to a second external network node.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a port of a network repeater, incoming data from an external network node over a communication link;
- identifying, by the network repeater, a configuration setting for the port of the network repeater from the incoming data received from the external network node;
- implementing a new mode of operation for the port of the network repeater based on the identified configuration setting;
- and
- forwarding, by the network repeater, the incoming data to a second external network node at the new mode of operation.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions that when executed by a hardware processor of a network repeater causes the processor to:
- Identify a configuration setting for a port of the network repeater from incoming data received from the external network node;
- implement a new mode of operation for the port of the network repeater based on the identified configuration setting;
- and
- forward, by the network repeater, the incoming data to a second external network node at the new mode of operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.