Isolated control plane addressing
First Claim
1. A method of managing a telecommunications network device, including a plurality of distributed processors coupled together through an isolated Ethernet switch control plane, comprising:
- associating each of the distributed processors with an identifier that is unique within the network device; and
using the identifiers as Media Access Control (MAC) addresses on the Ethernet switch control plane.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for addressing distributed network device processors coupled together through an isolated control plane. Specifically, where an Ethernet switch control plane is isolated within a network device, each processor is associated with an identifier unique within the network device and the identifiers are used as Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. Where control planes within multiple network devices may be connected together and the connected control planes remain isolated between the connected network devices, each processor is associated with an identifier unique across the connected network devices and the identifiers are used as control plane addresses. Using identifiers as addresses in isolated control planes avoids the need to assign and track globally unique addresses.
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11 Claims
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1. A method of managing a telecommunications network device, including a plurality of distributed processors coupled together through an isolated Ethernet switch control plane, comprising:
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associating each of the distributed processors with an identifier that is unique within the network device; and
using the identifiers as Media Access Control (MAC) addresses on the Ethernet switch control plane. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of managing a telecommunications network, including a plurality of network devices, wherein each network device includes a plurality of distributed processors coupled together through a control plane, and wherein the control planes of the plurality of network devices are coupled together and isolated between the plurality of network devices, comprising:
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associating each of the distributed processors within each of the network devices with an identifier that is unique across the plurality of network devices; and
using the identifiers as control plane addresses. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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