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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2001
David John Maxwell, Edinburgh, GB;
Paul Sandie, Edinburgh, GB;
Jonathan G. G. Tams, Edinburgh, GB;
Stephen Kitt, Edinburgh, GB;
Neil E Harrison, Fife, GB;
David John Maxwell, Edinburgh, GB;
Paul Sandie, Edinburgh, GB;
Jonathan G. G. Tams, Edinburgh, GB;
Stephen Kitt, Edinburgh, GB;
Neil E Harrison, Fife, GB;
3Com Corporation, Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
Ingress to egress network traffic ratios are determined for at least some devices within a network and server-like devices are selected on the basis of the determined ratios or a figure derived from the determined ratios. Selecting the server-like devices includes the step of selecting those devices having a value of ratio above a selected value and includes ranking the devices in order of their ratios and determining discontinuities in the values of the ratios of the ranked devices. The server-like devices are connected to a port of another device and the ingress to egress network traffic ratio is determined by determining the network traffic through the port using SNMP.