LOAD BALANCING HASH COMPUTATION FOR NETWORK SWITCHES

• Main Authors: ROITSHTEIN AMIR, MIZRAHI TAL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.06.2014
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

Techniques to load balance traffic in a network device or switch include a network device or switch having a first interface to receive a data unit or packet, a second interface to transmit the packet, and a mapper to map between virtual ports and physical ports. The network device includes hash val...