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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2017
New H3c Technologies Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, CN;
Mengtao Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Zhenglin Qi, Beijing, CN;
Yihong Xiu, Beijing, CN;
Daogui Liu, Beijing, CN;
NEW H3C TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Hangzhou, CN;
Abstract
In an extended bridge comprising a controlling bridge and a port extender, the controlling bridge associates an aggregation port of a link aggregation group with a plurality of extended ports connecting to a same terminal on the port extender, and assigns an aggregation port identifier to the aggregation port. The controlling bridge associates an extended port identifier of each of the plurality extended ports and a cascaded port connecting to the port extender with the aggregation port. The controlling bridge associates the aggregation port with the aggregation port identifier and the cascaded port to determine to add the aggregation port identifier into a downstream unicast packet of which an egress port exiting the extended bridge is the aggregation port and to via determine to send the downstream unicast packet with the aggregation port identifier via the cascaded port.