Switch port configuration based on silent host type
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsBalaji Sankaran, Venkatavaradhan Devarajan, Abhay Bhaskar
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Abstract
A network switch includes a port to connect an electronic device. The network switch can detect that the electronic device is a silent host, and the network switch can classify the electronic device as a selected silent host type from different silent host types, the classifying based on identifying an interaction, from among different types of interactions, between the network switch and the electronic device. The different types of interactions indicate respective silent host types of the different silent host types. The network switch can set a configuration associated with the port based on the selected silent host type produced by the classifying.
Claims20
A network switch comprising:
- a port to connect an electronic device;
- and
- a hardware processor to:
- detect that the electronic device is a silent host;
- classify the electronic device as a selected silent host type from different silent host types, the classifying based on identifying an interaction, from among different types of interactions, between the network switch and the electronic device, wherein the different types of interactions indicate respective silent host types of the different silent host types;
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- set a configuration associated with the port based on the selected silent host type produced by the classifying.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that upon execution cause a network switch to:
- detect a connection of an electronic device to a port of the network switch;
- monitor an interaction between the electronic device and the network switch;
- based on the monitored interaction, classify the electronic device as a selected silent host type from different silent host types, the classifying based on a type of the interaction from among different types of interactions, wherein the different types of interactions indicate respective silent host types of the different silent host types;
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- set a configuration associated with the port based on the selected silent host type produced by the classifying, the configuration comprising configuration information specifying how host information of the electronic device is to be retained due to inactivity of the electronic device.
A method comprising:
- detecting, by a network switch, connections of a first electronic device to a first port of the network switch and of a second electronic device to a second port of the network switch;
- classifying, by the network switch, the first electronic device as a shy silent host based on detecting an initial activity of the first electronic device at the first port followed by inactivity after the initial activity;
- classifying, by the network switch, the second electronic device as an ultra-silent host based on detecting that the second electronic device is inactive when connected to the second port and the second electronic device responds to a broadcast packet;
- setting, by the network switch, a first configuration associated with the first port based on classifying the first electronic device as the shy silent host;
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- setting, by the network switch, a second configuration associated with the second port based on classifying the second electronic device as the ultra-silent host, wherein the second configuration is different from the first configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.