Abstract: A configurable advertisement count and skew timer in a virtual router can be used to improve the speed with which a backup virtual router assumes the role of master upon the master router's failure. Enhanced VRRP packets having a type other than one may be used to cause MAC address movement from a failed master router to a backup router assuming the role of master router without placing an undue load on other routers in the network, such as by dropping the enhanced VRRP packets having a type other than one without processing the packets in the control plane of a receiving virtual router.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions which, when executed by one or more network devices, causes performance of operations. The operations include sending, to shared devices, one or more status queries regarding one or more device conditions for each of the shared devices, obtaining responses to the one or more status queries from each of the plurality of shared devices, the responses including the one or more device conditions for each of the shared devices, filtering the shared devices based on the one or more device conditions to obtain a subset of the shared devices, identifying the subset of the shared devices as a set of available shared devices, and transmitting information identifying the set of available shared devices to a client device.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium includes computer readable program code including instructions for subsequent to a client device associating with an access point, receiving a request for a set of allowed shared devices, removing, by the access point and to obtain the set of allowed shared devices, a shared device from a set of shared devices based on a client device user of the client device failing to have a permission required by a device sharing policy of the shared device, and transmitting the set of allowed shared devices to the client device.

Abstract: A method includes identifying internal links or forwarding elements within other network devices. The method further includes selecting a route for forwarding a packet through the other network devices based, at least in part, on link costs associated with the internal links within the other network devices.