Patent ID: 9503316
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H04L,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of configuring a set of conversation identifiers (IDs) at a network device in a distributed resilient network interconnect (DRNI) of a link aggregation group, wherein each conversation ID is to identify a conversation, wherein the network device and a neighbor network device are included in a first portal of the link aggregation group, wherein each of the network device and the neighbor network device implements link aggregation including aggregation ports with a single aggregator of the first portal, and wherein each of the network device and the neighbor network device includes a single gateway of the first portal, the method comprising: initializing the set of conversation IDs at the network device, wherein the initialization includes setting entries of a Boolean vector associated with the set of conversation IDs to be a sequence of zeroes, and wherein the Boolean vector includes values indicating processing the set of conversation IDs through the single gateway or the single aggregator of the network device; determining that distribution of the set of conversation IDs needs to be updated; setting values of an operational vector indexed by the conversation IDs, wherein the operational vector lists which network device of the first portal processes each of the set of conversation IDs; and setting values of the Boolean vector indexed by the conversation IDs, wherein the Boolean vector lists whether the single gateway or the single aggregator of the network device is associated with each of the conversation IDs.