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Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ketan Kotak, Milpitas, CA (US);

Eudean Michael Sun, Walnut Creek, CA (US);

Sriram Chidambaram, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 8/656 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/142 (2013.01); G06F 8/656 (2018.02); H04L 41/082 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for hitless repair. Hitless repair may include making a first determination, by a system control device (SCD) agent of a network device, that a SCD of the network device has experienced an error and/or is to be updated; making a second determination, by the SCD agent, that the SCD and the network device support the hitless repair; performing, by the SCD agent, a pre-hitless repair action set; and performing, by the SCD agent and after completing the pre-hitless repair action set, a post-hitless repair action set, including a hitless reset of the SCD.


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