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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2013
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sourabh Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Varun Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01);
Abstract
A methodology is described for achieving efficient forwarder appointments. Such efficient appointment may provide an equal load on each participating routing bridge in the TRILL LAN. Load may be viewed as the number of VLANs for which a given node is an appointed forwarder. Furthermore, efficient appointment may be executed with a minimum of traffic disruption. Minimal disruption may be ensured by forwarder appointments by moving a minimum number of VLANs to ensure an equal load on each participating routing bridge.