Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Amit K Ray

Phanidhar Koganti

Shunjia Yu

Vardarajan Venkatesh

One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch that is a member of a fabric switch. The switch includes a keepalive response module that identifies a keepalive response packet that does not correspond to any keepalive packet previously transmitted by the switch. The switch also includes a switch identifier extraction module that extracts a switch identifier from a payload of the keepalive response packet, where the switch identifier corresponds to another member switch in the fabric switch. The switch further includes a forwarding module that constructs a packet that includes the payload and is destined to the other member switch.

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Bengaluru, India

Amit K Ray