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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Foundry Networks, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rajiv Ramanathan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ron Talmor, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shao-Kong Kao, San Ramon, CA (US);
Anthony Ho, Fremont, CA (US);
Rudramahesh Rugge, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Foundry Networks, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a technique for facilitating software upgrade for a switching system comprising a first management processor and a second management processor and a set of one or more line processors, the techniques comprising receiving a signal to perform a software upgrade for a line processor from the set of line processors, and performing a software upgrade for the line processor without substantially affecting packet switching performed by the switching system.