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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2021
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam, Bothell, WA (US);
Senthil Kumar Ganesan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A loop prevention system includes a plurality of networking devices that are coupled together to form a Layer Two (L2) domain and at least a portion of the plurality of networking devices are coupled together in a physical loop configuration. A networking device included in the plurality of networking devices may include at least one L2 domain connection that couples the networking device to at least one of the plurality of networking devices in the L2 domain, and an edge connection that connects the networking device to a computing device that is outside of the L2 domain. The networking device may receive a data frame via the edge connection. The networking device then generates a loop breaker data frame by tagging the data frame with a loop breaker tag and forwards the loop breaker data frame via the at least one L2 domain connection.