Patent ID: 9083615
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of diagnosing a problem in a dual stack network comprising: maintaining, in a storage device, inventory information associated with a customer edge router in a dual stack network; retrieving, by a processing device, the inventory information associated with the customer edge router in response to a problem associated with the dual stack network, the inventory information including an inventoried media access control address associated with the customer edge router; determining, by the processing device, whether a mismatch exists between a live media access control address associated with the customer edge router and the inventoried media access control address associated with the customer edge router in response to the problem associated with the dual stack network; and generating, by the processing device, a notification in response to determining whether the mismatch exists, the notification including information representing a cause of the problem and a resolution of the problem.