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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2011
Gregory G. Page, Sandy, UT (US);
Sahil P. Dighe, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Roberto H. Jacob Da Silva, Oak Park, CA (US);
Bruce R. Jones, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Srinivas V. Tyamagondlu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gregory G. Page, Sandy, UT (US);
Sahil P. Dighe, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Roberto H. Jacob Da Silva, Oak Park, CA (US);
Bruce R. Jones, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Srinivas V. Tyamagondlu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
Aggregation Switches connected via a virtual fabric link (VFL) are each active and each coupled to a multi-chassis link aggregate group (MC-LAG), which is assigned to a multi-chassis link aggregate group virtual local area network (MC-LAG VLAN). A virtual Internet Protocol (IP) interface is allocated to the MC-LAG VLAN and configured on both Aggregation Switches.