Aruba Networks, Inc.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Gopalakrishna Raman

Sachin Ganu

Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj

Daniel N Harkins

Sheausong Yang

Partha Narasimhan

Sathish Damodaran

Ben Dunsbergen

Neal Dante Castagnoli

Santashil PalChaudhuri

Rajini Balay

Kiranmaye Sirigineni

Scott McGrath

Described herein are systems, devices, techniques and products for managing the dynamic assignment of media access control (MAC) addresses to wireless network devices, such as by identifying a dynamically assigned MAC address before, after, or during a wireless association process and communicating the dynamically assigned MAC address to a wireless network device. Also disclosed are systems, devices, techniques and products for preventing a denial of service attack on a wireless access point's association table, such as by requiring devices that associate with a wireless access point to respond to a query from the wireless access point shortly after association.

Infrastructure coordinated media access control address assignment

A system with a device including a hardware processor is configured to perform operations: receiving, by the device, a message over a wired medium, wherein the message has a frame including (a) a MAC address as a source MAC address for the frame and (b) a second MAC address as a destination MAC address for the frame, extracting, by the device, the frame from the message received over the wired medium, and wirelessly transmitting, by the device, the frame without modifying the source MAC address and without modifying the destination MAC address.

Synthetic client

According to one embodiment of the invention, a non-transitory computer readable medium for improving the scalability and redundancy of a wireless communications network. One embodiment of the non-transitory computer readable medium comprises instructions that select a first controller for controlling a configuration of a first access point and a second access point, detect a particular event and, responsive to detecting the particular event, select a second controller for controlling the configuration of the first access point without modifying the selection of the first controller for controlling the configuration of the second access point.

Selection of anchor controllers for access points within a network environment

Wireless association table denial of service prevention

The present disclosure discloses a system and method for communicating with a distribution system via an uplink access point. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive, at a first network device, an original packet from a client device; identify a source MAC address of the original packet as a MAC address of the client device; identify an IP address of the original packet as an IP address of the client device; generate a modified packet from the original packet by changing the source MAC address from the MAC address of the client device to a MAC address of the first network device; preserve the IP address in the modified packet to be the IP address of the client device; and forward the modified packet from the first network device to a second network device.

Communicating with a distribution system via an uplink access point

The present disclosure discloses a system and method for monitoring link quality between internetworking devices. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: generate, at a first internetworking device, a marker-request packet that includes a current marker ID; send, from the first internetworking device, the marker-request packet to a second internetworking device; receive, at the first internetworking device, a marker-reply packet that responds to the marker-request packet from the second internetworking device, the marker-reply packet including the current marker ID and a previous marker ID; and determine, at the first network device, a link quality between the first internetworking device and the second internetworking device based at least in part on the marker-reply packet.

Monitoring link quality between network devices

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Gopalakrishna Raman