- Patent Title: Methods and apparatuses for switching frames in a network topology
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Application No.: US16742011Application Date: 2020-01-14
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Publication No.: US11329917B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Babak Tamizkar
- Applicant: Telia Company AB
- Applicant Address: SE Solna
- Assignee: Telia Company AB
- Current Assignee: Telia Company AB
- Current Assignee Address: SE Solna
- Agency: Burr & Forman LLP
- Agent Jeffrey H. Kamenetsky
- Priority: SE1950056-0 20190117
- Main IPC: H04L12/741
- IPC: H04L12/741 ; H04L45/74 ; H04L101/622

Abstract:
There are provided methods and apparatuses for switching frames. A method includes receiving a frame from a source host node, wherein the frame includes a Layer 2 broadcast address for retrieving a MAC address of a destination host node and the frame further includes an original source MAC address of the source host node; generating a new MMSP MAC address which is associated with said original source MAC address; generating an individual MMSP unicast address including an individual switch ID; replacing the destination MAC address indicated in the frame with the individual MMSP unicast address; replacing the original MAC address indicated in the frame with said new MMSP MAC address to generate, a new frame including the individual MMSP unicast address and the new MMSP MAC address of the source the host node; and forwarding each new generated frame to every switch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200236044A1 Methods and Apparatuses for Switching Frames in a Network Topology Public/Granted day:2020-07-23
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