Patent ID: 11949587
Assignee: LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:
in response to determining that the ports that received an LACP PDU are unconfigured for LACP, allocating an admin key to the ports configured in the LAG and transmitting the admin key to the managed switch, wherein the managed switch transmits the admin key in additional LACP PDUs transmitted from the managed switch on the two or more connections of the LAG;
in response to determining that an admin key in the received additional LACP PDUs does not match the admin key allocated to the ports configured in the LAG, stopping the LACP timer and clearing the LACP configuration of the ports configured for LACP; and
in response determining that the identification information in the received additional LACP PDUs matches identification information of the managed switch and determining that an admin key in the received additional LACP PDUs matches the admin key allocated to the ports configured in the LAG, restarting the LACP timer.