System and method for LACP enhancements
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorDmitry V. Krivenok
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Abstract
A method, computer program product, and computer system for splitting, by a computing device, a plurality of physical Ethernet ports into at least two logical devices, wherein the at least two logical devices may have different media access control (MAC) addresses. A first device of the at least two logical devices may be used in an independent mode. A second device of the at least two logical devices may be used as a slave interface. A selective bypass schema may be executed for traffic on the plurality of physical Ethernet ports.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- splitting, by a computing device, a plurality of physical Ethernet ports into at least two logical devices, wherein the at least two logical devices have different media access control (MAC) addresses;
- using a first device of the at least two logical devices in an independent mode;
- using a second device of the at least two logical devices as a slave interface in a Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) mode;
- and
- executing a selective bypass schema for traffic on the plurality of physical Ethernet ports, wherein the plurality of physical Ethernet ports is used in the independent mode and the LACP mode at the same time.
A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, causes at least a portion of the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- splitting a plurality of physical Ethernet ports into at least two logical devices, wherein the at least two logical devices have different media access control (MAC) addresses;
- using a first device of the at least two logical devices in an independent mode;
- using a second device of the at least two logical devices as a slave interface in a Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) mode;
- and
- executing a selective bypass schema for traffic on the plurality of physical Ethernet ports, wherein the plurality of physical Ethernet ports is used in the independent mode and the LACP mode at the same time.
A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:
- splitting a plurality of physical Ethernet ports into at least two logical devices, wherein the at least two logical devices have different media access control (MAC) addresses;
- using a first device of the at least two logical devices in an independent mode;
- using a second device of the at least two logical devices as a slave interface in a Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) mode;
- and
- executing a selective bypass schema for traffic on the plurality of physical Ethernet ports, wherein the plurality of physical Ethernet ports is used in the independent mode and the LACP mode at the same time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.