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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2012
Applicants:

Megh Bhatt, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Harshad Nakil, San Jose, CA (US);

Rajashekar Reddy, San Jose, CA (US);

Saurabh Agarwal, Fremont, CA (US);

Sai Ganesh Sitharaman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Megh Bhatt, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Harshad Nakil, San Jose, CA (US);

Rajashekar Reddy, San Jose, CA (US);

Saurabh Agarwal, Fremont, CA (US);

Sai Ganesh Sitharaman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/709 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/245 (2013.01); Y02B 60/33 (2013.01);
Abstract

A virtual device includes multiple devices connected to operate as a single device. A first one of the devices is configured to determine that the first device connects to a second one of the devices via a first link; identify a second link; determine that the second link connects the first device to the second device; and automatically aggregate the first link and the second link to form a link aggregation with the second device based on determining that the first device connects to the second device via both the first and second links. The first device is further configured to transmit packets to the second device via the first and second links of the link aggregation.


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