Patent ID: 6701448
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of transferring an enhanced local area network (LAN) Emulation Client (LEC) from a first LAN Emulation Server (LES) to a second LES, comprising:determining an address of the first LES and the second LES respectively; and communicating the addresses of the first LES and the second LES to the enhanced LEC that is operable to store the addresses of the first LES and the second LES, wherein when the enhanced LEC determines that the first LES has failed, the address of the second LES may be looked up at the enhanced LEC and the enhanced LEC may couple to the second LES, and wherein communicating the addresses of the first LES and the second LES to the LEC includes: determining at a LAN Emulation Configuration Server (LECS) that the first LES and the second LES are coupled to the LECS; communicating from the LECS to the first LES and the second LES a control packet that includes the first LES address and the second LES address; and forwarding the first LES address and the second LES address from the first LES to the enhanced LEC.