Patent ID: 9577939
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: retrieving, from each of a plurality of physical Ethernet connections of a networking device aggregating the physical Ethernet connections via a port-channel, a percentage utilization of the physical Ethernet connection; evaluating, using one or more hashing algorithms, flow attributes of each of the physical Ethernet connections; calculating metrics for the flow attributes of each of the physical Ethernet connections based on the hashing algorithms and the percentage utilization of each of the physical Ethernet connections; selecting a preferred hashing algorithm based on the calculated metrics; estimating an improvement to the percentage utilization that results from using the preferred hashing algorithm on each of the physical Ethernet connections; and upon determining that the improvement that results from performing the preferred hashing algorithm exceeds a specified threshold, (i) sending a notification of the preferred hashing algorithm to a user and (ii) prompting the user to indicate whether to apply the preferred hashing algorithm.