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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2014
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Vidyasagara R. Guntaka, San Jose, CA (US);
Suresh Vobbilisetty, San Jose, CA (US);
Manjunath A. G. Gowda, San Jose, CA (US);
Pasupathi Duraiswamy, Milpitas, CA (US);
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a packet processor, a persistent storage module, and a boot-up management module. The packet processor identifies a switch identifier associated with the switch in the header of a packet. The persistent storage module stores configuration information of the switch in a first table in a local persistent storage. This configuration information is included in a configuration file, and the first table includes one or more columns for the attribute values of the configuration information. The boot-up management module loads the attribute values to corresponding switch modules from the first table without processing the configuration file.