Patent ID: 7430213

Claim:
A telecommunications node with the ability to handle IP-traffic and to terminate telecommunications traffic, comprising: a forwarding functionality comprising at least one forwarding engine; a routing table manager; means for creating an IP-host for terminating the IP-traffic in the telecommunications node, wherein the created IP-host is assigned an IP-address; means for attaching the created IP-host to an IP-port of one of the at least one forwarding engine; means for sending a message to the routing table manager in response to the created IP-host being attached to the IP-port of one of the at least one forwarding engine, wherein the message includes information relating to the identity of the IP-port and to the IP-address of the created IP-host, wherein the means for creating the IP-host are arranged to create a first IP-host, which is assigned a first IP-address and is attached to a first IP-port and to subsequently create a second IP-host attached to a second IP-port and assign the first IP-address to the second IP-host instead of to the first IP-host, means for selecting the second IP-port, to which the second IP-host is to be attached, based on load information regarding a load distribution in the telecommunications mode.