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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
James Zhijiang Shen, San Ramon, CA (US);
Pingching Vincent Ng, Union City, CA (US);
Huaqing Zeng, Fremont, CA (US);
Ju Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments generally provide techniques for load balancing data transmitted between line cards across a network fabric. Embodiments receive, at a first line card within a modular Ethernet switch, data to be transmitted to a second line card within the modular Ethernet switch. A mask table is accessed using a value corresponding to the second line card as an index in order to retrieve a mask value. Embodiments select one of a plurality of links for the first line card for use in transmitting the data, based on a load balancing algorithm and the retrieved mask value. The data is then transmitted to the second line card using the selected link.