Methods and devices for automatically reestablishing media access control security sessions over wide area networks
AssigneeRuckus IP Holdings LLC
InventorsAmit PAUL, Kiran TALLURI
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Abstract
A first electronic device communicates over a wide area network by establishing a MACSec session with a second electronic device over the wide area network. The MACSec session is thereafter torn down in response to the first electronic device sensing a fault in the MACSec session. Then, one or more keep alive probes are transmitted to the second electronic device over the wide area network. A response to the keep alive probe is thereafter received. The MACSec session may then be automatically reestablished in response to receiving the probe.
Claims20
A method for a first electronic device to communicate over a wide area network, the method comprising:
- establishing a MACSec session with a second electronic device over the wide area network;
- enabling transmission of a keep alive probe if a VxLAN cross-connect feature is not enabled during the MACSec session;
- tearing down the MACSec session;
- transmitting the keep alive probe to the second electronic device over the wide area network after tearing down the MACSec session;
- and
- automatically reestablishing the MACSec session.
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium of a first electronic device storing one or more computer-readable instructions that when executed by a processor of the first electronic device, cause the first electronic device to perform one or more operations comprising:
- establishing a MACSec session with a second electronic device over a wide area network;
- tearing down the MACSec session in response to sensing a fault in the MACSec session;
- transmitting a keep alive probe to the second electronic device over the wide area network after tearing down the MACSec session;
- receiving a response to the keep alive probe;
- and
- automatically reestablishing the MACSec session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.