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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
May. 27, 1999
Arush Kumar, Durham, NC (US);
Loren Douglas Larsen, Durham, NC (US);
Jeffrey James Lynch, Apex, NC (US);
IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for which associate physical links of a network device to aggregator ports of the network device where there are more physical links of the network device capable of aggregation than aggregator ports of the network device. Physical links are associated with the aggregator ports of the network device based on a session invariant characteristic of the physical links until either all of the aggregator ports of the network device have been associated with physical links or all of the physical links capable of aggregation have been associated with an aggregator port. The remaining physical links are then utilized as single links to the network device irrespective of the physical link's capability to aggregate.