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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Tibit Communications, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Edward W. Boyd, Petaluma, CA (US);
Kevin A. Noll, Leesburg, VA (US);
James A. Fletcher, Foxborough, MA (US);
Andrew P. Chagnon, North Attleboro, MA (US);
Jean-Christophe B. A. Marion, Petaluma, CA (US);
Tibit Communications, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment provides a system and method for automatic discovery and configuration of tunnel endpoints in a network. During operation, the system can broadcast, from an active tunnel endpoint, a peer-discovery-request message to the network. In response to receiving a peer-discovery-response message from a passive tunnel endpoint, the system can determine whether the passive tunnel endpoint has a tunnel based on the received peer-discovery response. In response to determining that the passive tunnel endpoint does not have a tunnel, the system creates a tunnel between the active tunnel endpoint and the passive tunnel endpoint and exchanges tunnel-configuration messages over the created tunnel.