Definition of "multipathing" []

• A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static "test" IP address for diagnostic purposes. (noun)

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• ""TRILL has no limits -- people are talking about 100-way multipathing.""
• ""Currently, Shortest Path Bridging is limited to a maximum of 16-way multipathing," Eastlake says."
• "Indeed, FCoE will take hold initially at the server access layer and as standards and characteristics of the technology mature -- such as the IETF TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) standard for multihop and multipathing capabilities -- it is expected to be deployed deeper into the core of the data center networks to facilitate the construction of much larger converged fabrics."