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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Peter Ka-Fai Chow, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas J. Runaldue, San Jose, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated multiport switch (IMS) for a data network has a management port for direct communication with an external management agent. The switch, which is integrated into a single chip, includes a management interface that comprises logic circuit elements. This interface acts as a virtual physical layer for both the media access controller (MAC) at the management port and the MAC at the external management agent. The latter may be located on the same circuit board as the IMS chip. PHY devices for these MACs are eliminated while the collision signal and carrier sense signal generation functions are maintained. The PHY devices are replaced by a logic interface while permitting use of the standard Simplified Network Management Protocol (SNMP) software for the interfacing operations. No modification of MAC software is required.