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

Claim 16:
17. A system comprising:
a set of processing units; and
a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by at least one processing unit in the set of processing units cause the at least one processing unit to:
receive a packet comprising a first network device identifier for use in a routing protocol;
upon determining that the packet satisfies a set of conditions, start a timer;
while the timer has not elapsed, maintain a count value of packets received that satisfy the set of conditions; and
when the timer has elapsed, determine, based on the count value and a defined threshold value, that a second network device in the network is configured with a second network device identifier for use in the routing protocol that is the same as the first network device identifier.