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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2004
Shrjie Tzeng, Fremont, CA (US);
Shrjie Tzeng, Fremont, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of handling frames in a network device is disclosed. The steps include receiving a frame by a network device of an assembly of network devices, with the assembly of devices divided into a first side and a second side and the network device being on the first side, examining the received frame to determine whether the frame is destined for a member of a specific trunking group, determining whether a destination device identifier for the frame corresponds to one of the network devices on the second side and forwarding the frame to a destination port based on the specific trunk group membership and the destination device identifier.