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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2011
Hamid Assarpour, Arlington, MA (US);
Hamid Assarpour, Arlington, MA (US);
AVAYA INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing Split Multi Link Trunk (SMLT) for Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) Over Ethernet is presented. All ports on an ATA server are assigned a same Media Access Control (MAC) address. When the first switch receives a packet destined to the second switch the first switch performs a route lookup on a destination address of the packet and forwards the packet to the target over one of the second plurality of links, and when the second switch receives a packet destined to the first switch the second switch performs a route lookup on a destination address of the packet and forwards the packet to the target over one of the second plurality of links.