CPC H04L 41/085 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0067 (2013.01); H04L 2101/622 (2022.05); H04Q 2011/0073 (2013.01)] | 10 Claims |
1. An article of manufacture, comprising:
a housing that encloses:
a non-volatile memory;
one or more modular network elements each comprising a CPU; and
a communication link between the CPU of each of said one or more modular network elements and the non-volatile memory,
wherein said non-volatile memory does not reside within any of said one or more modular network elements, and wherein the CPU of each modular network element is configured to retrieve, across the communication link, at least one MAC address from said non-volatile memory and adopt a particular MAC address from said at least one MAC address to identify itself any time that the modular network element in which the CPU resides reboots.
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