Patent ID: 8861339

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for providing Routed Split Multi Link Trunking (RSMLT) for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) tunnels, in which a computer system performs operations comprising: learning, by a first network switch, first data associated with a second network switch wherein said first network switch and said second network switch operate concurrently and wherein said first network switch terminates an WLAN Tunnel; learning, by said second network switch, second data associated with said first network switch; synchronizing said first and second data between said first network switch and said second network switch, wherein said data includes MAC Addresses, Internet Protocol (IP) interface addresses, Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) associations, WLAN tunnel assignments and Network switch Internet Protocol (IP) addresses; and load sharing tunnel data packets by said first network switch and said second network switch wherein when said second network switch receives tunnel data packets destined to said first network switch said second network acts as a tunnel endpoint and performs tunnel functions for said tunnel data packets; forwarding tunnel control packets received by said second network switch to said first network switch over an Inter Switch Trunk (IST); and establishing mobility tunnel equivalency, wherein for equivalent mobility tunnels, a single packet header encapsulation is used for all mobility tunnel equivalents, a primary and local mobility tunnel is designated per VLAN, ingress data is classified to a primary mobility tunnel, and during said synchronizing mobility tunnels are remapped based on equivalency and wherein, for mobility tunnels for local VLANs and remote VLANs, mobility tunnels with a same remote destination are equivalent.