Method and system for automatic detection of bridged and repeate

Details Method and system for automatic detection of bridged and repeate Method and system for automatic detection of bridged and repeate

1997-07-16

2000-03-14

Asta, Frank J.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer network managing

Computer network monitoring

709235, 709238, 709244, G06F 1300

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060386002

ABSTRACT:
An "intelligent network agent" software application for network devices (such as bridges or repeaters) which have one or more network links automatically detects when two or more of the agent's network links are bridged or repeated across. This information can be used elsewhere to automatically configure the network links or for other intelligent applications. Such configuration could include: assigning bridged links to different segments (to maximize the connectivity offered by the bridging and to prevent looping); setting up bridged links on a bridge to form a Spanning Tree with another bridge; setting up redundant connections; disabling ports which are causing loops in the network, or other configuration actions.

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