Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deriving network device and host connection
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Application No.: US16922582Application Date: 2020-07-07
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Publication No.: US11336502B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Biswajit Mandal , Anita Kar , Harshit Naresh Chitalia
- Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00 ; H04L41/0213 ; H04L101/622 ; H04L41/14 ; H04L41/12

Abstract:
This disclosure describes techniques that determine device connectivity in the absence of a network layer 2 discovery protocol such as Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP). In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes retrieving, from a bridge data store of a bridge device on a network having one or more host devices, a plurality of first interface indexes, wherein each first interface index corresponds to a network interface of network interfaces of the bridge device; retrieving, from the bridge data store, remote network addresses corresponding to the network interfaces of the bridge device, each remote network address of the remote network addresses corresponding to a second interface index; selecting a remote network address having a second interface index that matches the first interface index; determining a host device having the selected remote network address; and outputting an indication that the bridge device is coupled to the host device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220014415A1 DERIVING NETWORK DEVICE AND HOST CONNECTION Public/Granted day:2022-01-13
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