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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2001
Michael Yip, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Desikan Saravanan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Arthur Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward Joel Rovner, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Tash Hepting, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Anderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Bailey, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Michael Yip, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Desikan Saravanan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Arthur Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward Joel Rovner, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Tash Hepting, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Anderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Bailey, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Extreme Networks, Inc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for forwarding data packets to one of a plurality of servers comprising receiving a data packet from a source, at a data packet forwarding device having a plurality of ports, performing a hashing function using a unique component of the data packet as a seed value for the hash, generating a hash value using the hashing function, looking up a table for an address of one of the plurality of servers using the hashed value as an index to the table, and forwarding the data packet to a server corresponding to the address.