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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
May. 07, 2010
Santosh Rajagopalan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Smita Rai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gayatri Ramachandran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Sane, Fremont, CA (US);
Chandan Mishra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hariharan Balasubramanian, Oak Park, CA (US);
Santosh Rajagopalan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Smita Rai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gayatri Ramachandran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Sane, Fremont, CA (US);
Chandan Mishra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hariharan Balasubramanian, Oak Park, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes assigning at a switch in a layer 2 multipath network, costs to a link in the network, each of the link costs associated with a different graph for forwarding traffic in the network, transmitting the link costs to other switches in the layer 2 multipath network, and receiving and forwarding traffic according to one of the graphs. An apparatus is also disclosed.