Patent ID: 9614752
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining that a next hop for a destination includes a first next hop and a second next hop; generating a first packet having a first destination address based on a nickname of a remote switch and on an identifier of a first path; generating a second packet having a second destination address based on the nickname of the remote switch and on an identifier of a second path; forwarding both the first packet and the second packet to the remote switch on separate egress hops; and processing the first packet in a first processing thread at the remote switch and processing the second packet in a second processing thread different from the first processing thread at the remote switch, wherein the processing includes deriving customer MAC addresses and passing the customer MAC addresses between the first processing thread and the second processing thread to accomplish equal cost multi-path (ECMP) as the packets are processed in different threads.