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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2013
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Nafea Bishara, San Jose, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A first port of a network device having a plurality of ports. The first port includes a memory configured to store an identifier of a backup port associated with the first port a redirect circuit, and a loopback circuit. The redirect circuit is configured to, in response to a failure of the first port, redirect first frames of data, to be received from the first port by the network device, to the backup port associated with the first port. The loopback circuit is configured to, in response to the failure of the first port, redirect second frames of data, received by the first port from the network device, to the backup port associated with the first port.