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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1999
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling the route used for a flow in an environment comprising a default routing path and a shortcut path in an MPOA enabled ATM based network. A data field is added to the Ingress Cache table in the Ingress MPOA Client (I-MPC) to indicate whether the flow is to be routed through an MPOA shortcut towards the Egress MPOA Client (E-MPC) or is to be routed through the default path towards the Ingress MPOA Server (I-MPS). A first embodiment comprises a method of controlling the routing of a data flow from a source to a destination for security purposes. A second embodiment comprises a method of load sharing a plurality of data flows. A third embodiment comprises a method of learning about past MPOA resolution successes and failures and utilizing past establishment history to bypass the MPOA resolution process.