Stackable network units with resiliency facility

Details Stackable network units with resiliency facility Stackable network units with resiliency facility

2007-09-25

2007-09-25

Vu, Huy D. (Department: 2616)

Multiplex communications

Pathfinding or routing

Switching a message which includes an address header

Reexamination Certificate

active

10195503

ABSTRACT:
A network unit comprises a multiplicity of ports for transmitting and receiving data packets, a bridging facility and a routing facility. The network unit has a multiplicity of mutually exclusive states which includes an initial state from which said network unit can transition to either a slave state; or a waiting state from which in the absence of receipt from elsewhere of a broadcast advertisement including an advertised address corresponding to an address of the unit, the unit transitions to a master routing state in which the routing facility is enabled and the unit broadcasts a corresponding advertisement including an address of the unit. The unit transitions from the waiting state, when it receives from elsewhere (i.e., another unit) such a broadcast advertisement, to a master bridging state in which the routing facility is disabled and the unit provides commands for disabling a routing facility of other similar units to which the network is connected. The states include a slave routing state, in which the routing facility is enabled, and a slave bridging state, in which the routing facility is disabled. In the slave states the advertisements are not broadcast and the unit responds to routing enabling and disabling commands from a unit in a master state. The scheme provides in conjunction with external connectivity resilience in the event of a cascade failure.

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