Etherfuse: An ethernet watchdog

ACM SIGCOMM 2007: Conference on Computer Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 253-264

  Elmeleegy, Khaled ^a   Cox, Alan L ^a   Ng, T S Eugene ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Count to infinity; Ethernet; Forwarding loop; Network watchdog; Reliability

Indexed keywords

FORWARDING LOOP; NETWORK FAILURES; NETWORK WATCHDOG; SPANNING TREE;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET LOSS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ETHERNET;

EID: 36949014499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1282380.1282409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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