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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2017
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
Stephan Benny, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); H04L 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/745 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 41/0213 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment includes using a bridge device in support of a kernel bridge infrastructure. The kernel bridge infrastructure is modified using netfilter hooks to prevent forwarding of broadcast packets between bridge ports and to set a source media access control (MAC) address of an egress packet to a corresponding MAC address of a virtual network interface card (vNIC).