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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2011
Shaun Wakumoto, Roseville, CA (US);
Andrew T Bare, Antelope, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Roseville, CA (US);
Shaun Wakumoto, Roseville, CA (US);
Andrew T Bare, Antelope, CA (US);
Mark Gooch, Roseville, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Dynamic hardware address assignment to network devices in a switch mesh is described. In an example, a network device in a switch mesh dynamically assigns a hardware address to a network interface. The network device receives an address request from a client through the switch mesh. The network device calculates an index value for the client based on data in the address request. The network device selects the hardware address of a plurality of hardware addresses assigned to the network interface based on the index value. The switch mesh includes a plurality of traffic paths respectively for the plurality of hardware addresses. The network device sends the hardware address in a reply to the client through the switch mesh.