Cisco Technology, Inc.

Chiragkumar P Desai

Sanjay Kumar Hooda

Shashank Vinchurkar

Santosh Ramrao Patil

Mickael James Graham

Swaminathan A Anantha

Chien-Hsun Wang

Shyam Sundar Vaidyanathan

John Manuel Lau Moy

Prakash Jhurani

Techniques for extended network configuration conversion and reconfiguration are described. A network controller proceeds through a set of extended network nodes in an extended network and reconfigures ports in at the various nodes from a first configuration to a second configuration while preventing network traffic looping and maintaining data and management traffic connection to the nodes during the reconfiguration.

Extended network node provisioning in software defined access fabric networks

A server receives a certificate signing request and onboarding information for an applicant device, and identifies a customer associated with the applicant device based on an applicant device identifier and a database identifiers associated with customers. The device determines a registered device associated with the customer is a trusted device, a location trust value for the applicant device based on a geolocation proximity between the applicant device and the trusted device, and an environment trust value for the applicant device based on a proximity in a network topology between the applicant device and the trusted device. The device further determines a trust score for the applicant device based on the location trust value and the environment trust value, and sends a signed certificate to the applicant device over the network when the trust score for the applicant device exceeds a threshold.

Techniques for onboarding devices based on multifactor authentication

Stack switching detection may be provided. First, a request to connect to a server may be received by the server from a first network device. Then the server may send, in response to receiving the request, a query to the first network device for a serial number of any other network device connected to the first network device. The first network device may have a first serial number. The server may receive, from the first network device, a response to the query. The response may include a second serial number corresponding to a second network device connected to the first network device. Next, the server may determine, based on the response, that the first network device and the second network device comprise a stack unit. The server may then provision the stack unit by provisioning the first network device and provisioning the second network device through the first network device.

Stack switching detection and provisioning

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Chiragkumar P Desai