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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2000
Lakshminarayanan Venkataraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shuhung Alexander Mak, Fremont, CA (US);
Cheng Chia Chu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lakshminarayanan Venkataraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
ShuHung Alexander Mak, Fremont, CA (US);
Cheng Chia Chu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for clearing a plural number of connections from each of two connected nodes by clearing the first connection from the first node, generating a single first message from the first node to the second node identifying the connections, clearing the connections from the second node in response to the receipt of the first message, and generating a second message from the second node to the first node identifying the connections cleared by the second node in response to the second node receiving the first message. Furthermore, a node having circuits for generating and interpreting each of the two messages, and maintaining a database of connection status. Further, each of the two message types that signal a clearing of a plurality of inter-nodal connections.