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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2017
Sonicwall Us Holdings Inc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chris A. Hopen, Shoreline, WA (US);
Gary B. Tomlinson, Woodinville, WA (US);
John Brooke, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
Derek W. Brown, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jonathan Burdge, Renton, WA (US);
Rodger D. Erickson, Lawrence, KS (US);
SONICWALL INC., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure identifies topologies of a computer network where one network appliance may be configured as a master network appliance and where that master network appliance may communicate over a network communication interface with one or more slave network appliances. Computer networks of the present disclosure may include a switch and a firewall where the switch may be coupled to several network appliances via different network communication interfaces.