Self describing line cards in network switch
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May 28, 2009
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Nov 5, 2008
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Nov 5, 2007
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A network switch device includes a switch chassis, a supervisor mounted in the switch chassis; and a line card mounted in the chassis. The line card has independently addressable line card hardware components, and a line card memory storing a software-readable description of the line card hardware components. The supervisor controller reads the software-readable description of the line card hardware components from the line card, and creates software drivers for the line card hardware components from the software-readable description of the line card hardware components.
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