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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
identifying 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;
disabling 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;
configuring forwarding hardware 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.