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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2004
Timothy Hicks, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Phil Ghang, Calabasas, CA (US);
Jagjeet Bhatia, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Timothy Hicks, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Phil Ghang, Calabasas, CA (US);
Jagjeet Bhatia, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present invention features embodiments of automatically re-enabling a disabled port or physical media interface by monitoring the link status of the physical layer interface. Any change in the link status automatically re-enables a previously disabled port, thereby permitting data coming in through the previously disabled port to be admitted into the switch and automatically forwarded or routed/switched, without the network administrator manually issuing any commands to manually re-enable the port.