Patent ID: 11909671
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A computer system, comprising:
a processor;
a memory device;
a hardware module comprising forwarding circuitry;
a reconfiguration logic block to identify a target port of a switch for reconfiguration based on one or more reconfiguration parameters indicating how a set of logical ports are generated from the target port; and
a management logic block to disable the target port at a control plane of the switch, thereby disabling a respective feature provided to the target port from the control plane, wherein the control plane provides a set of features supported by the switch at a port-level granularity for facilitating operations of the switch;
wherein the reconfiguration logic block is further to:
configure the hardware module of the switch based on the one or more reconfiguration parameters to accommodate the set of logical ports; and
in response to the reconfiguration of the target port being complete at the forwarding hardware, enabling a respective logical port at the control plane, thereby enabling one or more features for the logical port from the control plane.