Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Kunal Deshpande

Nitin Singla

Yashavantha Nagaraju

Praveen Kumar Arora

Sivasankaran Nagarajan

Praveen Ramesh Ganjam

Praveen Ganjam Ramesh

Yashavanthan Nagaraju

Examples described relate to disabling of MAC address aging time for an IoT device on a network switch. In an example, in response to a device joining a network, a network switch in the network may determine a media access control (MAC) address of the device. The network switch may then send the MAC address to an authentication server. In response, the network switch may receive a Vendor Specific Attribute (VSA) associated with the MAC address from the authentication server. The VSA indicates that the MAC address relates to an IoT device. Based on the VSA, the network switch may recognize the MAC address of the device as a MAC address of the IoT device. In response to recognizing, the network switch may disable MAC address aging time for the MAC address of the IoT device on the network switch.

Disabling MAC address aging time for an internet of things (IoT) device on a network switch

A method, executable by a switch to automatically onboard end devices connected thereto, comprises detecting that an end device has connected to the switch, and determining a device identity of the connected end device. The determined device identity is used to obtain a configuration template profile associated with the connected end device. The switch is configured using the obtained configuration template profile.

Automatic onboarding of end devices using device profiles

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