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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1998
James Scott Hiscock, Rockport, MA (US);
Joris Johannes Maria Wils, Acton, MA (US);
Michael John Seaman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edward A. Heiner, Jr., Londonderry, NH (US);
G. Stodel Friedman, Acton, MA (US);
John Joseph Harrison, Jr., North Grafton, MA (US);
3COM Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A packet based high speed mesh forms a trunk cluster. The trunk cluster is constructed with a set of loosely coupled switches, a configuration protocol, trunked network interfaces, and optionally a reachablilty protocol. The trunk cluster provides a Logical LAN service. Each switch in the trunk cluster provides a single “shared LAN” by interconnecting two or more links. The edge devices attached to the links run a trunk configuration protocol. These attached edge devices view the trunked ports as if trunked ports are connected to a shared LAN with multiple other attached devices.