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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2024
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jisheng Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods for detecting misconfigured VLANs. In some embodiments, traffic on a VLAN across multiple access points is categorized. Traffic on the VLAN at a single access point is then also categorized. The categorization of the VLAN traffic at the single access point can be in response to, for example, communication errors or other conditions. The two categorizations are then compared to determine if the VLAN traffic at the AP is consistent with the VLAN traffic across a network (e.g., an enterprise network). If the VLAN traffic at the AP is generally consistent with that across the network, this may indicate that a downstream network component, such as a switch or router, is misconfigured. Thus, some embodiments programmatically reconfigure the downstream component to forward traffic for the VLAN.