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

Claim 8:
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the received LACP PDUs include identification information for the managed switch and the operations further comprising:
in response to determining that the ports that received an LACP PDU are configured for LACP, determining if identification information in additional LACP PDUs received over the two or more connections configured in the LAG match identification information for the managed switch;
in response to determining that the identification information in the received additional LACP PDUs match identification information of the managed switch, restarting the LACP timer; and
in response to determining that the identification information in the received additional LACP PDUs do not match identification information of the managed switch, stopping the LACP timer and clearing the LACP configuration of the ports configured for LACP.