Patent ID: 8565085
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: storing, by a switching unit associated with a network device, a link aggregation group (LAG) media access control (MAC) address, the network device including a plurality of links, the LAG MAC address does not include any physical MAC addresses associated, respectively, with the plurality of links; monitoring, by a control unit associated with the network device and after storing the LAG MAC address, datagram traffic associated with the network device, the control unit being different from the switching unit; detecting, by the control unit and based on monitoring the datagram traffic, a pattern in the datagram traffic; assigning, by the control unit and based on detecting the datagram traffic pattern, the LAG MAC address to two or more links, of the plurality of links in the network device to create a LAG; receiving, at the switching unit and after assigning the LAG MAC address to the two or more links, datagrams, where the datagrams are associated with one of the two or more links; and simultaneously transmitting, by the switching unit, the received datagrams using the two or more links within the created LAG and the assigned LAG MAC address.