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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2006
Donald Edward Banks, San Jose, CA (US);
Saravanan Valapady Kanan, TamilNadu, IN;
Sukhdev S. Kapur, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joseph Michaelsamy Swaminathan, Union City, CA (US);
Robert Arthur Land, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Donald Edward Banks, San Jose, CA (US);
Saravanan Valapady Kanan, TamilNadu, IN;
Sukhdev S. Kapur, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joseph Michaelsamy Swaminathan, Union City, CA (US);
Robert Arthur Land, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Cisco Technoloy, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of establishing and maintaining a consistent configuration state of a first processor, running on a first version of operating software, and a second processor, running on a second version of operating software, is described. The method involves determining a current configuration state of the first processor, where the configuration state comprises a list of configuration commands. The method also involves performing a syntax check for each command in the current configuration, using the second processor and the second version of operating software, with the syntax check resulting in a pass or a fail result. For every command which results in a fail result, an entry is added to a mismatched configuration list (MCL). Embodiments of this invention can be utilized to keep the configurations consistent during an upgrade or downgrade of the operating software.