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AssigneeArista Networks, Inc.
InventorsKarankumar Jagjitkumar, Avininderpal Singh Grewal, Purushothaman Nandakumaran, Terence King Lam Hui, Swaroop George, Deepjyoti Kakati
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A network device may include an active supervisor and a standby supervisor. The active supervisor module implementing the active supervisor may include data plane components. In some scenarios, when initiating a switchover that promotes the standby supervisor to a new active supervisor, the data plane components of the outgoing active supervisor module may be removed or become non-operational. To reduce traffic loss due to the lost data plane components, the active supervisor, prior to the switchover, may determine data hardware states in anticipation of loss of the data plane components and facilitate the programming of these data hardware states into corresponding data plane processor(s) of the network device prior to switchover initiation and/or prior to completion of the switchover.
A supervisor module comprising:
A supervisor module operable in a modular network device, the supervisor module comprising:
A supervisor module operable in a modular network device, the supervisor module comprising:
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