Address resolution request control
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsStuart Lees, Adrian Baldwin, Daniel Ellam, Jonathan Griffin
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Abstract
A method for address resolution request control in a network device of a network, the method comprises comparing address resolution requests submitted to network nodes from the network device against a predetermined threshold profile for the network device, and regulating a flow of address resolution requests from the network device in response to the comparison.
Claims14
A method for address resolution request control in a network device of a network, the method comprising:
- comparing address resolution requests submitted to network nodes from the network device against a predetermined threshold profile for the network device;
- and
- regulating a flow of address resolution requests from the network device in response to the comparison.
A method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:
- evaluating a throttle status at the end of the observation window. A method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:
- extending the observation window in the event that the threshold profile for the network device is exceeded.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a network device for throttling address resolution requests, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
- monitor outgoing address resolution requests to a target device from the network device;
- and
- compare data representing a frequency of requests to the target device from the network device against a threshold profile for the network device.
A network device, comprising a processor to:
- determine a frequency of address resolution requests from the network device to a target device;
- and
- regulate a flow of outgoing address resolution requests to the target device in response to a comparison of the frequency against a threshold profile of the network device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.