Alcatel

Piet Michel Albert

Sven Maurice Joseph Ooghe

Razvan Manisor

An access multiplexer system for performing stateless auto-configuration processes for use in networks comprising access multiplexers for receiving discovery messages from sources, which discovery messages comprise multicast destination addresses defining numbers of destinations. In order to increase the security of the networks, the system is provided with agents for replacing the original number of multicast destination addresses in the discovery messages with a further number destination addresses defining further destinations, wherein the further number of destinations is smaller than the original number of destinations. Discovery messages are defined in RFC 2461 and 2462 and comprise solicitation messages, with the sources comprising hosts and with the destinations comprising network-units, or comprise advertisement messages, with the sources comprising network-units and with the destinations comprising hosts.

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Ghent, Belgium

Piet Michel Albert