Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic ICCP provisioning and VLAN provisioning on an inter-chassis link in a MC-LAG
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Application No.: US15398366Application Date: 2017-01-04
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Publication No.: US10554494B1Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Shashvat A. Thakor , Amit Shukla , Rajeevalochan Ramaswamy
- Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Schumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04L12/24
- IPC: H04L12/24 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
Techniques are described for automatic provisioning of inter-control center communications protocol (ICCP) and automatic provisioning of virtual local area networks (VLANs) on an inter-chassis link (ICL) between multi-chassis link aggregation group (MC-LAG) peer devices. The MC-LAG peer devices may comprise two network devices included in an MC-LAG that is multi-homed to each of a plurality of MC-LAG client devices. In one example, the disclosed techniques enable detection of one or more VLANs configured on a multi-homed interface of the MC-LAG, and automatic provisioning of the detected VLANs on the ICL within the MC-LAG. In another example, the disclosed techniques enable determination of one or more ICCP parameters from MC-LAG configuration information, and automatic provisioning of ICCP over the ICL according to the determined ICCP parameters. The MC-LAG may be included within an enterprise switch of an enterprise network or within a data center switch of a data center network.
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