| 摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus for dynamically shifting between switching and routing packets efficiently to provide high packet throughput. The present invention designates multiple ports of an IP switched router for communication as a single interface with a second adjacent IP switched router to provide increased bandwidth between the network interfaces on the IP switched routers. The multiple designated ports are monitored by both IP switched routers for communications from the other. Data flows are queued up and inverse multiplexed over the multiple ports to optimize the available bandwidth. The inverse multiplexing is done at layer 2 of the OSI reference model, so that layer 3 does not have to know about any reallocation among the multiple ports.</p> |
