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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2011
Applicants:
Qinyu Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Malik Maiga, Champigny sur Marne, FR;
Inventors:
Qinyu Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Malik Maiga, Champigny sur Marne, FR;
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments described herein achieve even traffic load-balancing among physical ports in a port channel with 2ports of a networking switch. Embodiments may derive an upper limit of hash values given all the possible number of ports within a port channel. Based on the determined upper limit of hash values, embodiments provide the steps to evenly distribute hash values among ports in a port channel when adding or deleting a port to achieve even traffic load-balancing among ports in a port channel all the time.