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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
May. 29, 2019
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
Bruce H. Ratcliff, Red Hook, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/743 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/7453 (2013.01); H04L 45/08 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01);
Abstract
Examples of techniques for media access control (MAC) address learning are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include: receiving, by a processing device, a packet; determining, by the processing device, a packet type of the packet; and responsive to determining that the packet is a MAC learning packet type, updating, by the processing device, a MAC address table based on MAC address information associated with the packet.