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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Van Hunter, San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph Regan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alfred Nothaft, Keller, TX (US);
Akhil Duggal, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ; H04J 3/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ; H04J 3/14 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is described which pertains to load sharing/trunking in a communication device used in unicast and/or multicasting interchange of information. A plurality of available ports in the interface cards of the device is identified. More than one port is selected to be configured as a Multi-Link Trunk (MLT) even through the ports may be located on different interface cards.