MANAGEMENT OF CONNECTION WITH OTHER RESIDENTIAL GATEWAYS OF A RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY IMPLEMENTING LINK AGGREGATION

摘要

A method for managing the connection to other devices of a network device such as a residential gateway, is presented. The method prevents the other devices from being offered the ability to perform aggregation via the device which implements the method if this device itself performs link aggregation with other devices in order to increase its bandwidth. One thus avoids stream crossovers which reduce to naught the benefit of performing link aggregation between several residential gateways.