| US 7,480,309 B1 | ||
| Port aggregation load balancing | ||
| Gregory L. DeJager, San Jose, Calif. (US); James R. Rivers, Saratoga, Calif. (US); David H. Yen, Palo Alto, Calif. (US); Stewart Findlater, Mountain View, Calif. (US); and Scott A. Emery, Saratoga, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 07, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/75,436. | ||
| Application 11/075436 is a continuation of application No. 10/683222, filed on Oct. 10, 2003, granted, now 6,934,293. | ||
| Application 10/683222 is a continuation of application No. 10/251605, filed on Sep. 19, 2002, granted, now 6,667,975. | ||
| Application 10/251605 is a continuation of application No. 09/204658, filed on Dec. 02, 1998, granted, now 6,473,424. | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—412 [370/389; 370/392; 718/103; 718/105] | 13 Claims |
| 1. A packet forwarding device comprising:
a port group; and
a network traffic distribution system configured to
determine a stream ID for a packet and assign the packet having the stream ID to a queue of a port of the port group, and
adjust a queue assignment of a subsequent packet having the stream ID to a queue of a different port of the port group based
on load in the queues of the ports of the group.
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