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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2006
Scott R. Kotrla, Wylie, TX (US);
Howard H. Chiu, Plano, TX (US);
Donald Pitchforth, Jr., Rockwall, TX (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, TX (US);
Richard C. Schell, Allen, TX (US);
Matthew W. Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Glenn Wellbrock, Wylie, TX (US);
James D. Lee, Dallas, TX (US);
Scott R. Kotrla, Wylie, TX (US);
Howard H. Chiu, Plano, TX (US);
Donald Pitchforth, Jr., Rockwall, TX (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, TX (US);
Richard C. Schell, Allen, TX (US);
Matthew W. Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Glenn Wellbrock, Wylie, TX (US);
James D. Lee, Dallas, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A disclosed method and device relate to defining a link aggregation group (LAG) media access control (MAC) address and assigning the LAG MAC address to two or more links to define a LAG. The LAG MAC address does not duplicate physical MAC addresses associated with the links in the LAG. Datagrams associated with the links in the LAG are routed based on the LAG MAC address.