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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Linda T. Cheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Manpreet Singh Sandhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Subrat Mohanty, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ali Ahmad Tareen, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ganesh Srinivasa Bhat, Union City, CA (US);
Jimit Maheta, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for configuring a first switch for frontside networking. The method includes: discovering the capabilities of a second switch connected to the first switch, where the capabilities include frontside stacking; changing a port on the first switch connected to the second switch from a standard port to a frontside stacking port; discovering a topology of a network containing the first switch and the second switch; and creating a drop table having entries for at least the first switch and the second switch.