Patent ID: 9094302
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing a connectivity fault management (CFM) management domain, wherein the CFM management domain includes a local host processing system and a remote network switching element; determining at the local host processing system that a media access control (MAC) address of a virtual machine of the local host processing system is associated with a network service level agreement (SLA), wherein the network SLA specifies a rate shaping parameter for the management domain; detecting, by a CFM agent of the local host processing system, that a data packet is from the MAC address; determining, by the CFM agent, that the MAC address is a new MAC address for the local host processing system; issuing, by the CFM agent, a CFM frame to the management domain in response to determining that the MAC address is a new MAC address for the local host processing system; receiving the CFM frame at the remote network switching element; and configuring the remote network switching element to operate with the specified rate shaping parameter in response to receiving the CFM frame.