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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2010
Sandeep Dhar, Karnataka, IN;
Dinesh G. Dutt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Sane, Fremont, CA (US);
Adam Hutchin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sandeep Dhar, Karnataka, IN;
Dinesh G. Dutt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjay Sane, Fremont, CA (US);
Adam Hutchin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for generating different hash values in an effort to achieve better load balancing among various paths in a data center environment, such as Data Center Ethernet (DCE) with Layer 2 Multipathing (L2MP), supporting equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing are provided. In this manner, the data center environment may attain better network utilization for high-performance computing (HPC), storage area network (SAN), and/or local area network (LAN) traffic.