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Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2019
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Ramesh Kumar Subbiah, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Vibin Varghese, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0886 (2013.01); H04L 67/2814 (2013.01);
Abstract

An automatic fabric provisioning system includes first uplink switch device(s) associated with a first fabric, and second uplink switch device(s) associated with a second fabric. A gateway device is coupled to each of the first and second uplink switch device(s), and transmits a respective fabric login communication to each of the first uplink switch device(s) via at least one first uplink, and to each of the second uplink switch device(s) via at least one second uplink. When the gateway device receives respective first fabric login accept communication(s) from each of the uplink switch device(s) via the at least one uplink to that uplink switch device that identifies the fabric associated with that uplink switch device, it automatically associates each at least one first uplink with the first fabric, and each at least one second uplink with the second fabric.


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