Patent ID: 11861358
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions, which when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the processor to:
detect a first change in state indicating that a first network interconnect device has stopped receiving and transmitting data to and from a link aggregation group (LAG) on a first plurality of multiplexed data connections while a second network interconnect device receives and transmits data to and from the LAG on a second plurality of multiplexed data connections, wherein the first network interconnect device and the second network interconnect device are each external to the computing device, and wherein the first change in state is detected through monitoring the first plurality of multiplexed data connections to determine whether:
LAG entities associated with the first network interconnect device
are coordinating the LAG, and
are collecting or distributing link access control protocol (LACP) frames that control the LAG; and

update firmware of the first network interconnect device in response to the first change in state.