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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2013
Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);
Mei Yang, Fremont, CA (US);
Ravindran Suresh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Arijit Bhattacharyya, San Jose, CA (US);
Maocheng Hu, Union City, CA (US);
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch capable of auto-configuration of client devices for a link aggregation. The switch includes a packet processor, an auto-configuration module, and a link-aggregation management module. During operation, the packet processor extracts an identifier of a client device from a notification message received via a local port. The auto-configuration module, which is coupled to the packet processor, associates the local port with the identifier of the client device. If the packet processor recognizes the identifier of the client device in a message received from a remote switch, the link-aggregation management module forms a multi-switch link aggregation for the client device in conjunction with the remote switch.