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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Colin R. Devilbiss, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);
Timothy J. Schimke, Stewartville, MN (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for providing Ethernet link aggregation for logically independent entities that share a plurality of physical ports. A client operating system (OS) executing in a host computing system receives a selection of two or more logical Ethernet ports. Each logical Ethernet port is assigned to one of a plurality of physical Ethernet ports of a network adapter. The client OS generates a first link aggregate from the logical Ethernet ports. System firmware assigns an identifier to the first link aggregate that associates an aggregate configuration with the first link aggregate. The firmware registers the aggregate configuration with a network device that maintains configurations of at least a second link aggregate.