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Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Nicholas George McDonald, Ft. Collins, CO (US);

Adriana B. Flores Miranda, Ft. Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/947 (2013.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/123 (2013.01); H04L 45/122 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 47/122 (2013.01); H04L 49/258 (2013.01);
Abstract

A technique includes receiving a packet at a network device, wherein the packet is to be routed in a network to a destination network device; determining a plurality of candidate routes for the packet to be routed to the destination network device; grouping the plurality of candidate routes into a first set of candidate routes and a second set of candidate routes based on hop counts associated with the plurality of candidate routes; selecting one of the first or second sets based on a congestion metric threshold; selecting a candidate route from the selected first or second set based on weight metric values associated with the candidate routes of the selected first or second set; and selecting an egress port associated with the selected candidate route.


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