Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed functionality across multiple network devices
- Patent Title (中): 跨多个网络设备的分布式功能
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Application No.: US13791568Application Date: 2013-03-08
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Publication No.: US09130896B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Atul Moghe , Sai G. Sitharaman , Praveen Karadakal
- Applicant: Aruba Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Main IPC: G06F15/177
- IPC: G06F15/177 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a method comprises an operation of identifying a plurality of network devices, and detecting a presence of firewall processing functionality in a subset of the network devices. At least one of the network devices not in the firewall subset is configured to forward packets to a network device of the subset for firewall processing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140258478A1 Distributed Functionality Across Multiple Network Devices Public/Granted day:2014-09-11
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