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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2017
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joseph R. Mihelich, Folsom, CA (US);
JingJing Du, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Amit Srivastav, Dublin, CA (US);
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described for link aggregation and dynamic distribution of network traffic in a switching Clos network. In one embodiment of the present invention, a spine switch of a Clos network learns a first mapping of a Media Access Control (MAC) address of a client device to a first port of the spine switch and a second mapping of the MAC of the client device to a second port of the spine switch. The spine switch aggregates the first mapping and the second mapping as a link group for the MAC address of the client device in a MAC address table and distributes network traffic destined for the MAC address of the client device among members of the link group.