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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2011
David Ian Allan, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott Andrew Mansfield, Evans City, PA (US);
Eric Gray, Pitman, NJ (US);
János Farkas, Kecskemét, HU;
David Ian Allan, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott Andrew Mansfield, Evans City, PA (US);
Eric Gray, Pitman, NJ (US);
János Farkas, Kecskemét, HU;
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A flow classification process is used at the edge of the shortest path bridging network to determine a flow label for attachment to a client frame entering the network. Any of several flow labels can be assigned to a client frame traversing the network to a particular egress node, and the flow labels are used by forwarding nodes to select among multiple equal-cost paths. In several embodiments, the flow label is calculated as a function of the client frame contents, which provide an entropy source for randomizing the selection of the flow label. This entropy source comprises the Internet Protocol (IP) header in the client frame, in some embodiments, but may comprise other client frame content in other cases.