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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2005
Brian Baird, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Daniel Talayco, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Baird, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Daniel Talayco, Mountain View, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for discovering interconnections between a plurality of network devices arranged in a stacked configuration is provided. A probe packet, including a tag indicating a transmit port from which the probe packet was transmitted and a receive port at which the probe packet was received, is sent from one network device to a next network device. A routing packet is sent from each of the network devices, including information regarding the configuration of the stack of network devices. A master network device is elected. The master network device sends a topology packet, which includes final configuration information, to the other network devices.