Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Technologies for network discovery
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Application No.: US16957626Application Date: 2019-02-21
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Publication No.: US11362904B2Publication Date: 2022-06-14
- Inventor: Mrittika Ganguli , Dinesh Kumar , Robert Valiquette , Yadong Li , Mohan Kumar
- Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Compass IP Law, PC
- International Application: PCT/US2019/018978 WO 20190221
- International Announcement: WO2019/165088 WO 20190829
- Main IPC: H04L41/12
- IPC: H04L41/12 ; H04L12/46

Abstract:
Technologies for enhanced network discovery and configuration include a network with a fabric manager and multiple network devices. A network device requests platform information from a management controller and receives the platform information via a sideband interface. The network device broadcasts a discovery message indicative of the platform information on a link layer network. The fabric manager discovers the network topology with an enhanced link layer discovery protocol and creates a vPOD in the network. The vPOD includes an application network with multiple racks. The fabric manager creates a tagged network domain for the vPOD. The fabric manager sends an out-of-band configuration command to the network device with a tag associated with the vPOD. After receiving the out-of-band configuration command, the network device receives a packet, compares domain metadata of the packet to the tag received from the fabric manager, and routes the packet. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210058299A1 TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENHANCED NETWORK DISCOVERY AND APPLICATION NETWORK CREATION UNDER A POD SWITCH Public/Granted day:2021-02-25
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