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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2008
Cheng Tien EE, Rockaway, NJ (US);
Lee M. Breslau, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Cheng Tien Ee, Rockaway, NJ (US);
Lee M. Breslau, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Example methods and apparatus to distribute network IP traffic are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a first IP control packet at an input of a first server, the first IP control packet being received from a first router, selecting a second router within a router array associated with the first router to send the first IP control packet, the first server selecting the second router by matching a destination IP address of the first IP control packet to a first IP address subspace associated with the second router, transmitting the first IP control packet to the second router, and updating a forwarding table in the first router by associating the destination IP address of the first IP control packet with a first control path from the first router to the second router.