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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2019
Applicant:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeff Jing Yuen Chan, Vancouver, CA;
Avininderpal Singh Grewal, Vancouver, CA;
Petr Budnik, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/0667 (2013.01); H04J 3/0679 (2013.01); H04L 41/0631 (2013.01); H04L 41/147 (2013.01); H04L 51/14 (2013.01); H04L 51/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
The forwarding of a management message received in a network device includes determining whether a previously received message sent by the same sender has looped back to the network device. The message is forwarded if the received message is not a loop back of a previously received message, and dropped otherwise.