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Feature Enablement or Disablement Based on Discovery Message

  • US 20150207793A1
  • Filed: 07/31/2012
  • Published: 07/23/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing a set of instructions, executable by a processor, to perform a method to:

  • generate, at a network device, a discovery message, the discovery message including information related to a security attribute of a port of the network device;

    transmit the generated message to a neighbor network device;

    receive a response to the discovery message, the response to the discovery message including information related to the security attribute of a port of the neighbor network device; and

    determine whether to enable/disable a security feature at the port of the network device based on the information related to the security attribute of the port of the neighbor network device.

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