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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
May. 02, 2005
Moni Pande, San Jose, CA (US);
Jie Cheng Jiang, Foster City, CA (US);
Navindra Yadav, San Jose, CA (US);
Gnanaprakasam Pandian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pauline Shuen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Moni Pande, San Jose, CA (US);
Jie Cheng Jiang, Foster City, CA (US);
Navindra Yadav, San Jose, CA (US);
Gnanaprakasam Pandian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pauline Shuen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment in accordance with the invention is a method that includes detecting a failure in a ring network and transmitting a multicast message across the ring network that includes information regarding the failure. Additionally, a new ring master of the ring network is designated. Furthermore, a ring port coupled to the failure is blocked.