Patent ID: 11916778
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory comprising instructions which, when executed on the processor, performs an operation, the operation comprising:
closing a first traffic path in a first network configuration for a plurality of extended network nodes to cause the plurality of extended network nodes to use a first alternate traffic path for data traffic transmission;
reconfiguring a first set of ports in the plurality of extended network nodes from the first network configuration to a second network configuration to define a second traffic path in the second network configuration for the plurality of extended network nodes by:
reconfiguring a first port from the first network configuration to the second network configuration, wherein the first port is at first extended network node of the plurality of extended network nodes, wherein the first extended network node is first hop proximate to the root node; and reconfiguring at each next subsequent extended network node of the plurality of extended network nodes a first port from the first network configuration to the second network configuration;

closing the first alternate traffic path to cause the plurality of extended network nodes to use the second traffic path in the second network configuration for the data traffic transmission; and
configuring a second set of ports in the plurality of extended network nodes in the first network configuration into the second network configuration.