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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
May. 15, 2017
Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);
Bipin Agarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for determining port-to-port connectivity in an extended bridge are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a port extender (PE) of the extended bridge (e.g., a base PE) can build a local database comprising connectivity information for one or more physical cascade ports of the PE. This building can be based on one or more messages received from another PE in the extended bridge (e.g., a transit PE) that is directly connected to the PE. The PE can then transmit, at a time of joining the extended bridge, the connectivity information to a controlling bridge (CB) of the extended bridge for storage thereon.