| US 7,580,353 B1 | ||
| Method and apparatus to balance flow loads in a multipurpose networking device | ||
| Tomasz J. Goldman, Hellerup (Denmark); and Christian Paulsen, Søborg (Denmark) | ||
| Assigned to F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 16, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/735,955. | ||
| Application 11/735955 is a continuation of application No. 09/870252, filed on May 29, 2001, granted, now 7,206,282. | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G01R 31/08 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—230 [370/235; 370/395.42] | 25 Claims |
| 1. An apparatus for load balancing loads on a network, comprising:
a memory arranged to store data;
a network interface; and
a processor arranged to enable actions comprising:
estimating normalized loads for one or more flows of packets based on at least one cost scaling factor;
dropping at least one flow of packets if the estimation exceeds a predicted threshold;
enabling a drop policy by computing a drop factor based on aggregating over utilization of the processor; and
distributing excess resource capacity from flows of packets that do not exceed their resource allocation to those flows of
packets that have exceeded their resource allocation.
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