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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2015
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Shivakumar Sundaram, Tamilnadu, IN;

Ramesh Balaji Subramanian, Tamilnadu, IN;

Assignee:

DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/935 (2013.01); H04L 12/891 (2013.01); H04L 12/709 (2013.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 12/743 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/18 (2013.01); H04L 45/245 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 47/41 (2013.01); H04L 49/30 (2013.01); H04L 45/7453 (2013.01); Y02B 60/33 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for forwarding network traffic includes receiving a first flow of network traffic at an ingress port on a switch, collecting flow control metrics for a plurality of egress ports assigned to a link aggregation group of the switch, selecting a first egress port from the plurality of egress ports using a hashing strategy based on at least information associated with the flow control metrics, assigning the first flow to the first egress port, directing the first flow to the first egress port, and transmitting network traffic associated with the first flow using the first egress port.


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