Autonomic Traffic Load Balancing in Link Aggregation Groups By Modification of Switch Ingress Traffic Routing

摘要

Mechanisms are provided for performing traffic load balancing on ingress traffic directed to a Link Aggregation Group (LAG). The mechanisms monitor a ingress traffic load across a plurality of links of the Link Aggregation Group (LAG). The mechanisms determine if the ingress traffic load across the plurality of links is unbalanced. Moreover, the mechanisms, in response to determining that the ingress traffic load across the plurality of links is unbalanced, send a message to a switch associated with the LAG requesting the switch to modify routing of ingress traffic to the LAG to perform ingress traffic load balancing.

主权项

1. A method, in a device comprising a processor, for performing traffic load balancing on ingress traffic directed to a Link Aggregation Group (LAG), the method comprising:
monitoring, by the device, an ingress traffic load across a plurality of links of the Link Aggregation Group (LAG); determining, by the device, if the ingress traffic load across the plurality of links is unbalanced; and in response to determining that the ingress traffic load across the plurality of links is unbalanced, sending, by the device, a message to a switch associated with the LAG requesting the switch to modify routing of ingress traffic to the LAG to perform ingress traffic load balancing.