Exhibit 3.6

CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION OF RIGHTS, PREFERENCES  AND PRIVILEGES OF  SERIES A PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK  OF 3COM CORPORATION

The undersigned, Bruce L. Claflin and Mark D. Michael do hereby certify:

1.  That
they are the duly elected and acting President and Secretary, respectively, of 3Com Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation").

2.  That
pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Board of Directors by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the said Corporation, the said Board of Directors on
March 8, 2001 adopted the following resolution creating a series of 990,000 shares of Preferred Stock designated as Series A Participating Preferred Stock:

"RESOLVED,
that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of Directors of the corporation by the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Board of Directors does hereby provide for the issue of
a series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation and does hereby fix and herein state and express the designations, powers, preferences and relative and other special rights and the qualifications,
limitations and restrictions of such series of Preferred Stock as follows:

Section 1.Designation and Amount.The shares of such series shall be designated as "Series A Participating Preferred Stock." The Series A
Participating Preferred Stock shall have a par value of $0.01 per share, and the
number of shares constituting such series shall be 990,000.

Section 2.Proportional Adjustment.In the event that the Corporation shall at any time after the issuance of any
share or shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock (i) declare any dividend on Common
Stock of the Corporation ("Common Stock") payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the outstanding Common Stock or (iii) combine
the outstanding Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the Corporation shall simultaneously effect a proportional adjustment to the number of outstanding shares of
Series A Participating Preferred Stock.

Section 3.Dividends and Distributions.



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Section 4.Voting Rights.The holders of shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock shall have the
following voting rights:



Section 5.Certain Restrictions.



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Section 6.Reacquired Shares.Any shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise
acquired by the Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and canceled promptly after the acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued
shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Stock to be created by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors, subject to the conditions and
restrictions on issuance set forth herein and in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as then amended.

Section 7.Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up.Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, the holders of shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive an aggregate amount per share equal to 1,000 times the aggregate amount to be
distributed per share to holders of shares of Common Stock plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid dividends on such shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock.

Section 8.Consolidation, Merger, etc.In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger,
combination or other transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such case the shares of
Series A Participating Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed in an
amount per share equal to 1,000 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of Common
Stock is changed or exchanged.

Section 9.No Redemption.The shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.

Section 10.Ranking.The Series A Participating Preferred Stock shall rank junior to all other series of
the Corporation's Preferred Stock as to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets, unless the terms of any such series shall provide otherwise.

Section 11.Amendment.The Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation shall not be further amended
in any manner which would materially alter or change the powers, preference or special rights of the Series A Participating Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely without the
affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock, voting separately as a series.

Section 12.Fractional Shares.Series A Participating Preferred Stock may be issued in fractions of a
share which shall entitle the holder, in proportion to such holder's fractional shares, to exercise voting rights, receive dividends, participate in distributions and to have the benefit of all other
rights of holders of Series A Participating Preferred Stock.

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RESOLVED FURTHER, that the President or any Vice President and the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of this corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to prepare and
file a Certificate of Designation of Rights, Preferences and Privileges in accordance with the foregoing resolution and the provisions of Delaware law and to take such actions as they may deem
necessary or appropriate to carry out the intent of the foregoing resolution."

We
further declare under penalty of perjury that the matters set forth in the foregoing Certificate of Designation are true and correct of our own knowledge.

Executed
at Santa Clara, California on August 27, 2001.

| |  | /s/BRUCE CLAFLINBruce L. Claflin, President and CEO
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| |  | /s/MARK MICHAELMark D. Michael, Secretary          

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