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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2022
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Kiritkumar Joshi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jose M. Verger, Alamo, CA (US);
Samirkumar Patel, Middlesex, CA (US);
Michael Talbert, Nazareth, PA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Techniques for stateless address auto-configuration with support for multiple, different subnets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving, by a network device, a router solicitation (RS) message from a network node, generating, by the network device, a router advertisement (RA) message for use in determining the network node's network address, the RA message including a network address prefix and subnetting information, the subnetting information comprising a subnet address, a subnet address length and a subnet option type, and transmitting, by the network device, the RA message to the network node.