Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel

Jeanne Emmanuelle Rita De Jaegher

Erwin Alfons Constant Six

Michaël Andries Thomas Beck

Christele Bouchat

Dimitri Papadimitriou

Sven Jozef Jeanne Van Den Bosch

Michel Ferdinand Pauline Tassent

François Pierre Constant Fredricx

Razvan Manisor

The present invention is related to a method to control and to change dynamically a MAC address in an aggregation network containing at least a server computer device and a client device, comprising the steps of:

Dynamic change of MAC address

Methods for transmitting information from sources () via first network units () and networks () and second network units () to destinations () and using service identifiers such as service virtual local area network identifiers for routing the information through the networks () get a reduced complexity by making the service identifiers dependent on destination properties such as destination addresses and by making the service identifiers independent from source properties such as source addresses or customer identifiers. Network units () comprising customer parts () with customer access ports () and customer interface ports (-) and comprising service parts () with service interface ports (-) coupled to the customer interface ports (-) and service network ports () coupled to the service interface ports (-) and comprising taggers () are provided with detectors () for detecting destination properties in the information and selectors () for selecting the service identifies in response to detections of the destination properties.

Method for transmitting information from a source via a first network unit and a network and a second network unit to a destination

A method to grant a supplicant access to a data communication network and related devices is claimed. The supplicant is associated to a Medium Access Control address and is coupled to a port of an authenticator of the data communication network. The method includes:

Method to grant access to a data communication network and related devices

A method for control of communications from an edge device of an access network, via the provisioning or the non-provisioning of at least one layer 2 destination address of at least one other edge device of the access network to the edge device by a network management module of the access network. The at least one layer 2 destination address is delivered to the edge device on request of the edge device. In an exemplary embodiment, the edge device checks, upon arrival of a packet including at least one layer 2 destination address, whether the at least one layer 2 destination address is stored within a communications restriction filter of the edge device and generates the request including the at least one layer 2 destination address in case the at least one layer 2 destination address is not stored within the communication restriction filter.

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Jeanne Emmanuelle Rita De Jaegher