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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2012
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN;
Jiangtao Hao, Beijing, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A method for link aggregation failure protection includes: receiving failure information including a failure location and an identity of more than one corresponding logical link, a failed physical link and more than one physical link form an LAG, each physical link in the LAG corresponds to logical links with a same identity, and the logical links with the same identity in the LAG correspond to an RSP device of a backbone layer and a receiving device of an access layer and forward data separately through more than two aggregation devices at an aggregation layer locating between the backbone layer and the access layer; according to the failure information, bundling a logical link corresponding to the failed physical link with a logical link corresponding to a physical link without failure in the LAG to form a logical LAG; and transmitting, through the logical LAG, data sent to the failed physical link.