CPC H04L 45/24 (2013.01) [H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 63/0227 (2013.01); H04L 63/166 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A system operable to identify an in-band controller operating on a host in a software defined network (SDN), the host configured to use a parallel redundancy protocol (PRP), the system comprising:
a network in communication with the host, the network comprising a plurality of switches interconnected with a plurality of physical links; and
the in-band controller in communication with the network, the in-band controller comprising:
a PRP identification subsystem to:
generate at least one packet configured such that the network forwards the packet back to the in-band controller; and
analyze the at least one packet and determine that the packet conforms to PRP;
identify a first communication host in communication with the network and configured to operate using PRP; and
a traffic routing subsystem to create a plurality of PRP communication flows between the in-band controller and the first communication host.
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