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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Kannan Karuppiah, Fremont, CA (US);
Senthil Kumar Ganesan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Udhaya Chandran Shanmugam, Santa Clara, CA (US);
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
When an event occurs in the network that affects an information handling system in the network, a topology change notice (TCN) may be propagated so that the network topology can be regenerated. However, currently, there is no mechanism to readily identify the source information handling system of the TCN. To address issues, in one or more embodiments, when an information handling system (such as a network switch) initiates a TCN, it sends a specialized message to keep track of the source of the TCN. In one or more embodiments, information handling systems that receive the specialized message may record information about the source and forward it to other information handling systems in the network.