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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Chiragkumar P. Desai, San Jose, CA (US);
John Manuel Lau Moy, Belmont, CA (US);
Chien-Hsun Wang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Prakash Jhurani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Stack switching detection may be provided. First, a request to connect to a server may be received by the server from a first network device. Then the server may send, in response to receiving the request, a query to the first network device for a serial number of any other network device connected to the first network device. The first network device may have a first serial number. The server may receive, from the first network device, a response to the query. The response may include a second serial number corresponding to a second network device connected to the first network device. Next, the server may determine, based on the response, that the first network device and the second network device comprise a stack unit. The server may then provision the stack unit by provisioning the first network device and provisioning the second network device through the first network device.