METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING DISTRIBUTED RESILIENT NETWORK INTERCONNECT (DRNI) STATES

A method of configuring a set of conversation identifiers, IDs at a network device m a distributed resilient network interconnect, DRNI of a link aggregation group is disclosed. The method starts with initializing (3502) the set of conversation IDs. wherein the initialization includes setting (3506) entries of a Boolean vector associated with the set of conversation IDs to be a sequence of zeroes, and wherein the Boolean vector includes values indicating processing the set of conversation IDs through the single gateway or the single aggregator of the network device. The method continues with determining (3504) that distribution of the set of conversation IDs needs to be updated, setting values of an operational vector indexed by the conversation IDs, and setting (3508) values of the Boolean vector, wherein the Boolean vector lists whether the single gateway or the single aggregator of the network device is associated with each of the conversation IDs. Fig. 36