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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
May. 13, 2015
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam, Chennai, IN;
Premnath Sundarababu, Chennai, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for identifying an error in a Layer 3 network configuration. The system for identifying an error includes ports for receiving information of network Layer 3 configurations from devices that are communicatively coupled to the system through a network, where each of the network configurations includes a parameter. Embodiments of the system also include compiling the information of network configurations into one or more tables, wherein the one or more tables include a list of values for the network configuration parameter(s) and numbers of devices or interfaces that match to the list of values. In embodiments, the value that corresponds to the highest number of devices or interfaces in the table may be selected as the correct value.