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Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Adekunle Bello, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Omar Cardona, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Shaival J. Chokshi, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 12/891 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/709 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/245 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 45/70 (2013.01); H04L 47/41 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); Y02B 60/33 (2013.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms are provided for performing traffic load balancing on ingress traffic directed to a Link Aggregation Group (LAG). The mechanisms monitor a ingress traffic load across a plurality of links of the Link Aggregation Group (LAG). The mechanisms determine if the ingress traffic load across the plurality of links is unbalanced. Moreover, the mechanisms, in response to determining that the ingress traffic load across the plurality of links is unbalanced, send a message to a switch associated with the LAG requesting the switch to modify routing of ingress traffic to the LAG to perform ingress traffic load balancing.


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