H - Electricity – 04 – L
Patent
H - Electricity
04
L
H04L 12/28 (2006.01) H04L 29/04 (2006.01) H04Q 7/38 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2572568
To enable devices to detect L3 roaming users and to take appropriate forwarding actions, L3 knowledge is introduced inside a bridge in a non-intrusive way. In particular, as a client moves from a subnet associated with a first network element to a subnet associated with a second network element, a determination is made regarding whether the client is roaming. This is done by evaluating a source IP address within a L3 packet header within a first frame received at the second network element. If, as a result of the evaluating step, it is determined that the client is roaming, an L2 bridge forwarding table in the second network element is configured to include a source MAC address of the client together with information identifying at least a destination interface for use in directing client data traffic back towards the subnet associated with the first network element. The first frame is then forwarded. In one embodiment, the traffic is directed back towards the subnet associated with the first network element via a GRE encapsulation tunnel, although any convenient tunneling mechanism can be used. According to another feature, given information cached at the foreign access point is used to enable the roaming client to continue to seamlessly receive inbound traffic prior to or during the configuration of the L2 bridge forwarding table (i.e., before any outbound traffic is actually sent from the client).
Blanchette Richard H.
Bouchard Martin
Gupta Anil
Koehler Yannick
Moineau Gilbert
Colubris Networks Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Company
Kirby Eades Gale Baker
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