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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2008
Lawrence Rolfe Kreeger, Fremont, CA (US);
Elango Ganesan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Siva M. Vaddepuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Yoshiaki Uchino, Foster City, CA (US);
Arvind Prabhudev, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joe Joseph Karimundackal, San Jose, CA (US);
Lawrence Rolfe Kreeger, Fremont, CA (US);
Elango Ganesan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Siva M. Vaddepuri, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Yoshiaki Uchino, Foster City, CA (US);
Arvind Prabhudev, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joe Joseph Karimundackal, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus obtains a switch port identifier mapping for each of the plurality of ports of a network device, wherein the switch port identifier mapping indicates a port identifier of one of the plurality of ports of the network device and a switch port identifier of a switch port to which the one of the plurality of ports is connected. The apparatus obtains a set of switch information for each of a plurality of switches, the set of switch information including a set of switch port identifiers associated with the corresponding one of the plurality of switches. The apparatus ascertains for each one of the plurality of ports, a corresponding one of the plurality of switches and a port of the one of the plurality of switches to which the one of the plurality of ports is connected.