发明名称 |
Method for in-band communication of management information in a backplane architecture of a stackable ethernet repeater |
摘要 |
In a backplane architecture for a logical stackable Ethernet repeater for an Ethernet network having a plurality of stackable repeater modules, each one of the stackable repeater modules being connectable via bus-type signal lines to one another for communicating packets via bus-type signal lines, and each one of said stackable repeater modules including a plurality of ports for connection to stations, a method is provided for communicating management information wherein a management module collects information about packets on the backplane from repeater modules, and the repeater modules transmit packet information only via bus-type signal lines. In a specific embodiment, transmitting comprises appending after each packet at each source port of each repeater module an information footer having a select number of information units, and conveying each packet with the information footer on the bus-type signal lines. The management module reads the information footer from the bus-type signal lines to collect information about the source of each packet and compiles statistical information from direct interpretation of each packet.
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申请公布号 |
US5805596(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1998.09.08 |
申请号 |
US19950576802 |
申请日期 |
1995.12.21 |
申请人 |
3 COM CORPORATION |
发明人 |
KRANZLER, DAVID A.;TANG, WEN-TSUNG;IBE, EDWIN |
分类号 |
H04L12/24;H04L12/44;(IPC1-7):H04B3/36;H04L25/20 |
主分类号 |
H04L12/24 |
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