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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Tse Yu Lei, San Jose, CA (US);
Ning Song, Milpitas, CA (US);
Vardarajan Venkatesh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mythilikanth Raman, San Jose, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a local database, a packet processor, a data management module, and a tree construction module. The packet processor extracts spanning tree information associated with a remote switch. The data management module stores the extracted spanning tree information in the local database. The tree construction module assigns an interface state associated with a spanning tree to a local interface based on the extracted spanning tree information.