发明名称 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINK AGGREGATION ACROSS MULTIPLE SWITCHES |
摘要 |
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a forwarding mechanism and a control mechanism. During operation, the forwarding mechanism forwards frames based on their Ethernet headers. The control mechanism operates the switch in conjunction with a separate physical switch as a single logical switch and assigns a virtual switch identifier to the logical switch, wherein the virtual switch identifier is associated with a link aggregation group.
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申请公布号 |
US2013308649(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2013.11.21 |
申请号 |
US201313889637 |
申请日期 |
2013.05.08 |
申请人 |
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC.;BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. |
发明人 |
CHENG JOSEPH JUH-EN;CHEUNG WING;TERRY JOHN MICHAEL;VOBBILISETTY SURESH;VARANASI SURYA P.;GHALAMBOR PARVIZ |
分类号 |
H04L12/721 |
主分类号 |
H04L12/721 |
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