SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE CONFIGURATION OF SWITCHES IN VIRTUAL LINK TRUNKING ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

A system and method of determining the configuration of a network switching unit includes a network switching unit having one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors are configured to execute code to cause the network switching unit to perform operations. The operations include detecting an inter-domain link aggregation group (LAG) associated with a first domain ID and receiving an inter-domain LAG detection message from a peer network switching unit. The inter-domain LAG detection message includes a second domain ID. In response to determining that the first domain ID and the second domain ID match, the network switching unit performs further operations including assigning a virtual link trunking (VLT) identifier to the inter-domain LAG, transmitting a VLT configuration message to the peer network switching unit, and forwarding network traffic to a first domain associated with the first domain ID using a VLT associated with the VLT identifier.

主权项

1. A network switching unit comprising:
one or more hardware processors; wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured to execute code to cause the network switching unit to perform operations comprising:
detecting an inter-domain link aggregation group (LAG) associated with a first domain ID;receiving an inter-domain LAG detection message from a peer network switching unit, the inter-domain LAG detection message including a second domain ID;in response to determining that the first domain ID and the second domain ID match:
assigning a virtual link trunking (VLT) identifier to the inter-domain LAG;transmitting a VLT configuration message to the peer network switching unit; andforwarding network traffic to a first domain associated with the first domain ID using a VLT associated with the VLT identifier.