Method, apparatus and system for configuring master-salve network device

• Main Authors: CAO QINGBO, YIN XIANYANG
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 29.07.2009
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

The invention discloses a technical proposal for a method for configuring master-slave network equipment, a device and a system thereof, wherein, the method comprises the following steps: the network equipment receives configuration information of master-slave state; the network equipment carries out physical layer auto-negotiation according to the received configuration information of the master-slave state; setting the configuration mode of the master-slave state of the network equipment as an automatic mode; and cancelling the physical layer auto-negotiation aiming at the setting of the current automatic mode. The technical proposal can avoid the phenomenon that network equipment at two ends needs to carry out the configuration process and the interaction process of the upper layer of information again when the physical layer auto-negotiation is fault and the switching of the master-slave equipment is fault and improves the maintainability of the network equipment.