Patent ID: 8457129
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving at a network element having a binding table a packet that is part of a flow, the binding table having an entry corresponding to the flow, the entry mapping the flow to a first one of a plurality of endpoints; recognizing that a state of the first one of the plurality of endpoints at the first network element is not active; determining that the state of the first one of the plurality of endpoints at a second network element mated with the first network element and having a binding table similar to the binding table of the first network element is active; directing the flow to the first one of the plurality of endpoints via the second network element; recognizing that the state of the first one of the plurality of endpoints at the second network element has changed to not active; and directing the flow to a second one of the plurality of endpoints.