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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2023
L3harris Global Communications, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);
Nelson Henry Powell, III, Penfield, NY (US);
Benjamin Thomas Lagreca, Lockport, NY (US);
L3Harris Global Communications, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for automatically managing tunnels in a network. The methods comprise: detecting, by a router of the network, that a tunnel is needed for communicating a packet to at least one member of a multicast group of another network; selecting, by the router, a base address from a set of unused base addresses; communicating, from the router, an auto-tunnel create message including the base address which was previously selected; receiving, by the router, a tunnel create ACK message sent from another router of the network upon the another router's verification that base address is unused; creating the tunnel using the base address for the router and another base address for the another router; encapsulating the packet; and communicating the encapsulated packet from the router to the another router using the tunnel which was created.