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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2007
John G. White, Cary, NC (US);
Keith R. Schomburg, Apex, NC (US);
Ravi Shankar Jandyala, Durham, NC (US);
John G. White, Cary, NC (US);
Keith R. Schomburg, Apex, NC (US);
Ravi Shankar Jandyala, Durham, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A configuration management system and related methods are provided to facilitate intersection-based management of configuration information for network devices. In one example, a method includes polling a plurality of network devices to determine address entries stored by address tables of the network devices. The method also includes applying a hash function to the address entries to determine a plurality of key-value associations. The method further includes maintaining a hash table comprising the key-value associations. Each key of the hash table corresponds to an address entry stored by one or more of the address tables. Each value of the hash table identities which of the address tables are storing the address entry corresponding to the associated key.