Patent ID: 11861358
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computing device comprising:
a processor; and
a network interface card (NIC) comprising:
a first NIC port;
a second NIC port;
a first NIC partition coupled to the first NIC port and to a first link aggregation group (LAG) entity coordinating a LAG between the computing device and a first network interconnect device, and
a second NIC partition coupled to the second NIC port and to a second LAG entity coordinating the LAG between the computing device and a second network interconnect device;

wherein the processor is configured to:
detect a first change in state indicating that the first network interconnect device has stopped receiving and transmitting data to and from the LAG on a plurality of multiplexed data connections between the computing device and a core network device, wherein the first change in state is detected through monitoring when both:
link LAG entities corresponding to a second server-side interconnect port and a plurality of second core network side interconnect ports on the second network interconnect device are collecting or distributing link access control protocol (LACP) frames, the second server-side interconnect port linked to the second NIC port by a second physical network media, and
link LAG entities corresponding to a first server-side interconnect port and a plurality of first core network side interconnect ports on the first network interconnect device are not collecting or distributing link access control protocol (LACP) frames, the first server-side interconnect port linked to the first NIC port by a first physical network media, the first physical network media being different from the second physical network media; and
update firmware of the first network interconnect device in response to the first change in state.