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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2012
Mythilikanth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Mary Manohar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wei-chiuan Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Gangadhar Vegesana, Milpitas, CA (US);
Vardarajan Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Raju Shekarappa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mythilikanth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
Mary Manohar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wei-Chiuan Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Gangadhar Vegesana, Milpitas, CA (US);
Vardarajan Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Raju Shekarappa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes an ownership management mechanism and a notification mechanism. The ownership management mechanism maintains a local ownership association between the switch, and a medium access control (MAC) address learned at the switch and terminates the local ownership association for the MAC address. The notification mechanism generates a first notification indicating the local ownership association and a second notification indicating the termination of the local ownership association.