METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IMPLEMENTING CONVERSATION-SENSITIVE COLLECTION FOR A LINK AGGREGATION GROUP

摘要

A method is executed by a network device for implementing conversation-sensitive collection for frames received on a port of a link of a link aggregation group. The network device executes an aggregator to collect the frames for aggregator clients, where each frame is associated with a service identifier and a conversation identifier. The service identifier identifies a data flow at a link level for a service. The conversation identifier identifies the data flow at a link aggregation group level, where each conversation data flow consists of an ordered sequence of frames, and where the conversation-sensitive collection maintains the ordered sequence by discarding frames of conversations not allocated to the port.

主权项

1. A method executed by a network device for implementing conversation-sensitive collection for frames received on a port of a link of a link aggregation group, wherein the network device executes an aggregator to collect the frames for aggregator clients, where a received frame is associated with a service identifier and a conversation identifier, the service identifier identifying a conversation at a link level for a service, the conversation identifier identifying the conversation at the link aggregation group, where the conversation consists of an ordered sequence of frames, and where the conversation-sensitive collection maintains the ordered sequence by discarding frames of conversations not allocated to the port, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving the frame over the link of the link aggregation group at the network device; determining the conversation identifier for the frame; comparing the conversation identifier with port conversation allocation; discarding the frame in response to a non-match of the conversation identifier with the port conversation allocation; and forwarding the frame to an aggregator client in response to a match of the conversation identifier with the port conversation allocation.