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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2012
Applicants:
Cuong T. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Rabah S. Hamdi, Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Cuong T. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Rabah S. Hamdi, Spring, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/5025 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes establishing a connectivity fault management (CFM) management domain that includes a host processing system and a network element, determining that a media access control (MAC) address of the host processing system is associated with a network service level agreement (SLA), issuing a CFM frame to the management domain, receiving the CFM frame, and configuring the network element according to the network SLA.