WO2004051938A3 - Methods and devices for exchanging peer parameters between network devices - Google Patents

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WO2004051938A3
WO2004051938A3 PCT/US2003/036452 US0336452W WO2004051938A3 WO 2004051938 A3 WO2004051938 A3 WO 2004051938A3 US 0336452 W US0336452 W US 0336452W WO 2004051938 A3 WO2004051938 A3 WO 2004051938A3
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Tushar Desai
Shashank Gupta
Praveen Jain
Kalyan K Ghosh
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    • H04L69/30—Definitions, standards or architectural aspects of layered protocol stacks
    • H04L69/32—Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
    • H04L69/322—Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions
    • H04L69/324—Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions in the data link layer [OSI layer 2], e.g. HDLC
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Methods and devices are provided for detecting whether peer ports internconnecting two network devices can perform a novel protocol called Exchange Peer Parameters (“EPP”). If the peer ports are so configured to perform EPP, EPP services are exchanged between the peer ports. In a first phase, information is exchanged about peer port confirgurations of interest. In a second phase, the results of the exchanged of information are applied to hardware and/or software of the respective ports, as needed.
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