Patent ID: 11943138
Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a program executable by at least one processing unit of a first network device, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
receiving a packet through a routing protocol, the packet comprising a first identifier for identifying the first network device in the routing protocol;
upon determining that the packet satisfies a set of conditions, starting a timer;
while the timer has not elapsed, maintaining a count value of packets received through the routing protocol that satisfy the set of conditions; and
when the timer has elapsed, determining, based on the count value and a defined threshold value, that a second network device in the network is configured with a second identifier for identifying the second network device in the routing protocol that is the same as the first identifier.