Internetworking apparatus for load balancing plural networks
US5978844A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 6, 1996 |
| Grant date | Nov 2, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 6, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/5083
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An internetworking apparatus for interconnecting a plurality of networks, having forwarding sections corresponding to interfaces of the networks, each including a processor for performing packet forwarding processing and a statistics unit for collecting processing time statistics of the processor. An adjusting section connected to all the forwarding sections through a bus instructs each processor to change a program to be executed thereby based on the processing time statistics reported by each processor so as to balance processing loads on the respective processors.
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