Clearing forwarding entries dynamically and ensuring consistency of tables across ethernet fabric switch

Clearing forwarding entries dynamically and ensuring consistency of tables across ethernet fabric switch

One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes an ownership management mechanism and a notification mechanism. The ownership management mechanism maintains a local ownership association between the switch, and a medium access control (MAC) address learned at the switc...

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Hauptverfasser: MANOHAR MARY, CHEN WEIIUAN, VENKATESH VARDARAJAN, RAMAN MYTHILIKANTH, SHEKARAPPA RAJU, VEGESANA GANGADHAR
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Zusammenfassung:One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes an ownership management mechanism and a notification mechanism. The ownership management mechanism maintains a local ownership association between the switch, and a medium access control (MAC) address learned at the switch and terminates the local ownership association for the MAC address. The notification mechanism generates a first notification indicating the local ownership association and a second notification indicating the termination of the local ownership association.