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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2013
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Senthil Kumar Ganesan, Fremont, CA (US);
Venkatesan Mahalingam, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method of managing virtual local area network (VLAN) associations with network ports includes receiving a first packet on a first port of a network switching device, extracting first VLAN identification information from the first packet, determining one or more first VLANs associated with the first port based on the first VLAN identification information, associating the first port with each of the one or more the first VLANs, and transmitting a second packet on the first port when a second VLAN associated with the second packet is included in the one or more first VLANs. In some embodiments, the first packet is received from an end station. In some embodiments, the first packet includes a VLAN identification field selected from a group consisting of a VLAN list field, a VLAN bitmap field, a Port VLAN ID type-length-value (TLV), and a Port Protocol VLAN ID TLV.