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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
May. 31, 2000
Clare Chu, Fremont, CA (US);
Stephen Schleimer, San Jose, CA (US);
Clare Chu, Fremont, CA (US);
Stephen Schleimer, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus that provide for a Layerpath determination are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a Layerpath between a source device and destination device is first determined in order to identify contiguous pairs of Layerdevices. A subpath is then determined for each contiguous pair of Layerdevices based on VLAN and spanning tree information associated with the contiguous pair. The Layerpath is a concatenation of the subpaths of all the contiguous pairs in the Layerpath.
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