| US 7,463,579 B2 | ||
| Routed split multilink trunking | ||
| Roger Lapuh, Uesslingen (Switzerland); and Tamiji Homma, Mountain View, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, Quebec (Canada) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 11, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/618,136. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0007951 A1, Jan. 13, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01R 31/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—216 [370/400; 710/38] | 17 Claims |
| 7. A system comprising:
an Inter Switch Trunk (IST) link;
a first aggregation device coupled to the IST link, the first aggregation device comprises a first set of ports, first processing
logic coupled to the first set of ports, and a first memory element coupled to the first processing logic, the first memory
element including a routing table that comprises a first set of media access control (MAC) records, each MAC record of the
first set of MAC records includes a routing bit that, when set to a first logical value, allows routing of that MAC record
from the first set of ports over the IST link and when set to a second logical value, does not allow routing of that MAC record
over the IST link; and
a second aggregation device coupled to the IST link, the second aggregation device to obtain the first set of MAC records
for use by one or more local routing instances for a Layer 3 (L3) networking protocol within the second aggregation device,
wherein the first aggregation device and the second aggregation device are routed split multilink trunking (RSMLT) enabled.
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