Patent ID: 8489754
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: clustering a plurality of multi-chassis fabric-backplane enterprise servers into a full-mesh topology, the clustered plurality comprising a full-mesh enterprise server cluster providing one or more Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) therein; for each port of the full-mesh enterprise server cluster, identifying a type of the port as being a particular one of a set of port types including internal port, external port, and edge port, the external port and edge port types being non-internal ports of the full-mesh enterprise server cluster and wherein each edge port is a fabric-backplane enterprise server port that is connected to a device that is not a fabric-backplane enterprise server; within the full-mesh enterprise server cluster, for each VLAN, forwarding packets received from non-internal ports to all ports of the VLAN; and within the full-mesh enterprise server cluster, for each VLAN, forwarding packets received from internal ports to all non-internal ports of the VLAN as per a spanning tree protocol.