Patent ID: 9379945
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04L,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. An information handling system node comprising: a plurality of input/output (I/O) ports, at least a portion of which facilitate communications with one or more client devices and are configurable to be part of one or more arbitrary topology virtual link trunking (VLT) link aggregation groups (LAGs), each of the one or more VLT LAGs including the information handling system node and at least one of the one or more client devices; a plurality of inter-node-link (INL) ports, at least a portion of which facilitate communications with one or more of peer information handling system nodes in an arbitrary n-node VLT system, which comprises the information handling system node and a plurality of information handling system nodes; a data processing component that processes data traffic, and receives data from and sends data to at least some of the plurality of I/O ports and at least some of the plurality of INL ports; at least one encapsulation module that performs tunnel encapsulation to add information to identify an ingress port and to identify an ingress peer information system node, the tunnel encapsulation is performed whenever packets are forwarded over at least one INL port; and a forwarding component that forwards data traffic based on the tunnel encapsulation information.