| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention relates to a switching device comprising - a terminal pair (110,170) arranged for signal transmission and reception, - circuitry (195) adapted for generating a stimulus signal to a plurality of network devices (299,399) forming a daisy chain and for receiving a response signal to the stimulus signal, said circuitry (195) further arranged for deriving from at least the response signal an indication of a network device of the plurality being operational or not, - processing means (190) arranged for assigning a location-based network address to the network device of the plurality taking into account the derived indication.</p> |
