公开(公告)号：US06195349B1

公开(公告)日：2001-02-27

申请号：US09014547

申请日：1998-01-28

申请人： James Scott Hiscock ,  Joris Johannes Maria Wils ,  Michael John Seaman ,  Edward A. Heiner, Jr. ,  G. Stodel Friedman ,  John Joseph Harrison, Jr.

发明人： James Scott Hiscock ,  Joris Johannes Maria Wils ,  Michael John Seaman ,  Edward A. Heiner, Jr. ,  G. Stodel Friedman ,  John Joseph Harrison, Jr.

IPC分类号： H04L1250

CPC分类号： H04L12/4641

摘要： A packet based high speed mesh forms a trunk cluster. The trunk cluster is constructed with a set of loosely coupled switches, a configuration protocol, trunked network interfaces, and optionally a reachablilty protocol. The trunk cluster provides a Logical LAN service. Each switch in the trunk cluster provides a single “shared LAN” by interconnecting two or more links. The edge devices attached to the links run a trunk configuration protocol. These attached edge devices view the trunked ports as if trunked ports are connected to a shared LAN with multiple other attached devices.

摘要翻译： 基于分组的高速网格形成中继集群。 中继集群由一组松散耦合的交换机，配置协议，中继网络接口和可选的可达性协议构成。 中继集群提供逻辑LAN服务。 中继集群中的每个交换机通过互连两个或多个链路来提供单个“共享LAN”。 连接到链路的边缘设备运行中继配置协议。 这些附加边缘设备查看集群端口，就好像集群端口连接到具有多个其他连接设备的共享LAN。

公开(公告)号：US06195351B1

公开(公告)日：2001-02-27

申请号：US09014548

申请日：1998-01-28

申请人： James Scott Hiscock ,  Joris Johannes Maria Wils ,  Stephen Luke Van Seters ,  Edward A. Heiner, Jr. ,  G. Stodel Friedman ,  John Joseph Harrison, Jr.

发明人： James Scott Hiscock ,  Joris Johannes Maria Wils ,  Stephen Luke Van Seters ,  Edward A. Heiner, Jr. ,  G. Stodel Friedman ,  John Joseph Harrison, Jr.

IPC分类号： H04L1228

CPC分类号： H04L49/153 ,  H04L49/1523 ,  H04L49/50 ,  H04L49/552 ,  H04L2012/5627 ,  H04L2012/568

摘要： A Logical Switch Set (LSS) is provided comprising two or more switches that act as a single packet forwarding device with specific connection rules. The single packet forwarding device is a single logical unit. The LSS may be used as either a redundant switch set (RSS) or as a Load Sharing Switch Set (LSSS). The maximum throughput of the LSSS increases with each additional switch. A LSSS can only interconnect with the other devices via trunked links that contain at least one physical connection to each switch. The RSS may include a trunk link connection and a resilient link connection

摘要翻译： 提供逻辑交换机（LSS），包括两个或多个交换机，充当具有特定连接规则的单个报文转发设备。 单个分组转发设备是单个逻辑单元。 LSS可以用作冗余交换机集（RSS）或负载分担交换机集（LSSS）。 LSSS的最大吞吐量随每个附加开关而增加。 LSSS只能通过到每个交换机至少包含一个物理连接的中继链路与其他设备互连。 RSS可以包括中继链路连接和弹性链路连接

公开(公告)号：US5949788A

公开(公告)日：1999-09-07

申请号：US852146

申请日：1997-05-06

申请人： G. Stodel Friedman ,  David J. Husak ,  Stephen L. Van Seters ,  Edward A. Heiner, Jr.

发明人： G. Stodel Friedman ,  David J. Husak ,  Stephen L. Van Seters ,  Edward A. Heiner, Jr.

IPC分类号： H04K1/10 ,  H04L29/04 ,  H04L29/06

CPC分类号： H04L12/4604

摘要： A method and apparatus are disclosed which permit multipoint trunking among a plurality of network devices connected by a trunk comprising at least two physical links. A trunk control message protocol (TCMP) is described which assures that message traffic may be delivered to the respective devices over the individual links of the trunk prior to inclusion of the respective links as active links in the trunk. The trunk acts as a single network port for each of the devices utilizing the trunk and is layered over a plurality of media access control (MAC) ports which interface to the respective links. The disclosed trunking technique and apparatus permit the bandwidth of the trunk to be increased in increments through the addition of links to the trunk.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种允许通过包括至少两个物理链路的中继线连接的多个网络设备之间的多点中继的方法和装置。 描述了一种中继控制消息协议（TCMP），其确保在将各个链路包括在中继线中的活动链路之前，消息流量可以经由中继线的各个链路被传送到相应的设备。 中继线充当利用中继线的每个设备的单个网络端口，并且分层在与相应链路相连接的多个媒体访问控制（MAC）端口上。 所公开的中继技术和装置允许通过添加到中继线的链路来增加中继线的带宽。