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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2009
Richard W. Bradford, Westford, MA (US);
Daniel J. Biagini, Waltham, MA (US);
Adam L. Taylor, Acton, MA (US);
Richard W. Bradford, Westford, MA (US);
Daniel J. Biagini, Waltham, MA (US);
Adam L. Taylor, Acton, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method is provided for transferring network traffic for multi-homed devices. In this method, capacity information is received from a network device. This capacity information identifies a network capacity of the network device. Upon detection of network traffic to exceed a threshold, an excess capacity of the network device is identified based on the capacity information. A portion of the network traffic is then transferred to the network device by way of a link aggregation protocol, and the portion of network traffic is transferred based on the identified excess capacity of the network device.