Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Auditing networking devices
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Application No.: US14828832Application Date: 2015-08-18
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Publication No.: US10084676B2Publication Date: 2018-09-25
- Inventor: Venkata Siva N. Amulothu , Ashish Kapur , Vishal Shukla
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Christopher K. McLane; David M. Quinn
- Main IPC: H04L12/26
- IPC: H04L12/26 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
Auditing networking devices is provided. A first traceroute is initiated from a first computing device to a second computing device. The first traceroute identifies at least one networking device along a data path from the first computing device to the second computing device. The first computing device is caused to send a first resource discovery packet to the second computing device. The first resource discovery packet includes a value matching a reserved multicast MAC address. Information describing one or more networking devices is compiled. The information is based, at least in part, on replies generated by one or more networking devices that received a resource discovery packet. One or more networking devices described by the information from the data path is excluded responsive to receiving a request.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170054623A1 AUDITING NETWORKING DEVICES Public/Granted day:2017-02-23
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