Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamically installing a device driver by a network element
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Application No.: US15626030Application Date: 2017-06-16
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Publication No.: US10831469B2Publication Date: 2020-11-10
- Inventor: Sudip Regmi , Udayakumar Srinivasan , Kenneth James Duda , Anirban Sinha
- Applicant: Arista Networks, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
- Current Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Fountainhead Law Group P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F8/656
- IPC: G06F8/656 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/24 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F30/18 ; G06F8/61 ; G06F9/4401 ; G06F8/65 ; G06F16/951 ; G06F111/02 ; G06F8/60 ; H04L12/26
Abstract:
A method and apparatus of a network element that installs a device driver used to manage hardware of the network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element detects, with a functionality of a network element operating system, the hardware of a data plane of the network element, where at least one component of the network element operating system is executing in a first container as a first set of processes. The network element further determines a device driver for the hardware and installs the device driver in a kernel of the host operating system. The network element additionally manages the data, with the network element operating system, using the device driver.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180246731A1 DYNAMICALLY INSTALLING A DEVICE DRIVER BY A NETWORK ELEMENT Public/Granted day:2018-08-30
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