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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Bakul Khanna, Lexington, MA (US);
Leigh Mclellan, Framingham, MA (US);
Robert Lee, Lexington, MA (US);
Dale Nash, Sudbury, MA (US);
Bakul Khanna, Lexington, MA (US);
Leigh McLellan, Framingham, MA (US);
Robert Lee, Lexington, MA (US);
Dale Nash, Sudbury, MA (US);
Avaya Holdings Limited, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A Point to Point Protocol ('PPP') link running PPP Multilink Protocol with multi-class extensions ('Multilink-Extension') having both peers on the PPP link support a number of egress priority queues negotiated during the Multilink-Extension negotiation. Each peer also establishes a number of classes equal to the negotiated number of egress priority queues. Thus, communication devices that have a different default number, or different maximum number, of egress priority queues can interoperate in a manner that ensures packets have the same per-hop behavior (“PHB”). The present invention is both memory efficient and processing time efficient because only the minimum number of egress priority queues necessary are instantiated.