Patent ID: 9450859
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H04L,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of synchronizing Media Access Control (MAC) identifiers for link aggregations among intermediary devices of a cluster, the method comprising: (a) establishing a plurality of link aggregations via intermediary devices of a cluster comprising the plurality of intermediary devices, the cluster identified by a cluster identifier; (b) generating, by the first intermediary device, unique Media Access Control (MAC) identifiers corresponding to each of the plurality of link aggregations, each of the unique MAC identifiers comprising the cluster identifier embedded within; (c) synchronizing, by the first intermediary device with each of the other intermediary devices in the cluster, the unique MAC identifiers for the plurality of link aggregations; and (d) setting, by a second intermediary device of the cluster for a first link aggregation of the plurality of link aggregations, a MAC identifier of a network packet to the unique MAC Identifier received from the first intermediary device corresponding to the first link aggregation.