Patent 10924390 was granted and assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on February, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In some examples, a system populates a distribution data structure useable by a switch in distributing communications of data packets across a plurality of network paths for the switch. In response to an addition of a new network path or a removal of an existing network path for the switch, the system updates entries of the distribution data structure using a process that identifies selected entries of the distribution data structure to skip as part of updating the distribution data structure.