Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Zhi-Qiang Wang

Srikanth Natarajan

Eric A Pulsipher

Max C Knees

Loren F Wilson

Swamy Jagannadha Mandavilli

Dipankar Gupta

Yong Boon Ho

Exemplary embodiments are directed to a system and method for managing a network having multiple domains. An exemplary method includes identifying a router interface connected with a switch; assigning a Layer 2 identifier to the interface, wherein the identifier uniquely identifies a Layer 2 domain within the network; and assigning the Layer 2 identifier to the switch.

Method and system for managing a network having multiple domains

Methods and systems are disclosed for inferring address and subnet relationships. An exemplary method includes identifying a first address associated with a subnet; determining a length of a prefix part of the first address; determining a length of a prefix part of a second address; determining when a portion of the second address matches a portion of the first address; and determining when the lengths of the prefix parts of the first and second addresses are equal. A relationship between the second address and the subnet is inferred when the portion of the second address matches the portion of the first address and the lengths of the prefix parts of the first and second addresses are equal.

Method and apparatus for inferring address and subnet relationships

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Zhi-Qiang Wang