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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2013
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Kwun-Nan Kevin Lin, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shafiuddin Mohammed, Fremont, CA (US);
Ravi Swamy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for assigning device identifiers in a system of devices are provided. In one embodiment, a master device of the system can maintain a first configuration that specifies a set of links between a first subset of the devices, where the first configuration includes a device identifier for each device in the first subset. The master device can further generate a second configuration that specifies a set of links between a second subset of the devices, where the second configuration is based on a physical topology of the system, and where one or more devices in the second subset are unknown devices that are not associated with a device identifier in the physical topology. The master device can then assign device identifiers to the unknown devices in the second subset by comparing the first configuration with the second configuration.