Cisco Technology, Inc.

Cisco Tenchology, Inc.

Henry Rivers

Charles Matthew Corbalis

Samer L Theodossy

Paul Farah

Syed Rahman

Muthu Muthuraman

Felix Khouri

Shyla Bearelly

Mark Lazan

A method of managing a network switch having a processor card, including a memory and a processing unit in the processor card is described. The method includes the steps of detecting an error and determining a type of the error. Then, determining whether a threshold has been reached and performing a hitless rebuild in the processor card when the type of the error is in a first set of errors and the threshold has not been reached.

Method and apparatus for performing the rebooting of a network node with minimal loss of network traffic

A data communications network consists of a number of interconnected nodes and a network station having a memory. The memory stores a data base containing predefined circuit provisioning information for a number of users. A user accesses the frame relay network by dialing into the network via an ISDN connection. When the user calls into the network, signaling information is received at a first node of the network and passed to the network station. The signaling information includes automatic number identification (ANI) information which identifies the calling user. The network station uses the ANI to index the data base and retrieve associated circuit provisioning information. The circuit provisioning information is used to automatically install a circuit according to the predefined information. In this way, the user is provided with dial access to the frame relay network.

ANI-dormant connections for frame relay

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Henry Rivers