DETERMINISTIC SESSION LOAD-BALANCING AND REDUNDANCY OF ACCESS SERVERS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK

摘要

In one embodiment, for each port of an access node in an access-based computer network, one access server of a plurality of access servers is configured as a preferred access server for that port. Upon receiving a session initiation message at a particular port, the access node forwards the session initiation message to one or more of the access servers based on the configured preferred access server for the particular port.