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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2009
Michael Schlansker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jean Tourrilhes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Schlansker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jean Tourrilhes, Mountain View, CA (US);
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for load balancing Ethernet traffic within a fat tree network () includes randomly assigning incoming messages () into hash classes using a hash function (); allocating the hash classes among uplinks (); and transmitting the incoming messages on the uplinks () according to the hash class. A network switch () for load balancing communication flows in a fat tree network () includes downlinks () and uplinks (); the network switch () being configured to route communication flows among the downlinks () and uplinks (); a hash module () which receives a MAC address from a message () and outputs a hash address; and a TCAM lookup module () which allocates the hash address into a hash class and allocates the hash class to one of the uplinks ().