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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Applicant:
Xiaohong Pan, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Xiaohong Pan, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Foundry Networks, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A virtual router spans a number of physical routing devices. One of the physical routing devices is designated as master, and the other physical routing devices are designated as backups to the master. The virtual router may be situated between a first local area network and a second local area network. A virtual router identifier can be associated with multiple interfaces on each of the physical routing devices.