Patent ID: 8270290
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of interfacing a Client System (CS) with a network domain, the CS including an Aggregator function for load spreading ingress traffic originating from the CS across two or more parallel links of a Link Aggregation Group (LAG), the method comprising: providing a set of two or more peer edge nodes of the network domain, each one of the set of peer edge nodes including: computing a respective path through the network domain from each peer edge node to at least one predetermined destination address, for carrying traffic to or from the CS; and at each peer edge node, installing forwarding state such that: wherein computing a path through the network domain comprises: wherein a respective set of two or more equal cost paths are computed for each one of at least two of the set of peer edge nodes, and wherein selecting one of the computed set of two or more equal cost paths comprises: