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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1992
Mario Macera, Newton, MA (US);
William E Jennings, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Dennis Josifovich, Northborough, MA (US);
George W Kajos, Auburn, MA (US);
John A Mastroianni, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Francis E Neil, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Victor Bennett, Ipswich, MA (US);
Frank J Bruns, Medfield, MA (US);
Gururaj Deshpande, Andover, MA (US);
Jeremy Greene, Stow, MA (US);
Bay Networks Group, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An internetworking system for exchanging packets of information between networks, the system comprising a network interface module for connecting a network to the system, receiving packets from the network in a native packet format used by the network and converting each received native packet to a packet having a generic format common to all networks connected to the system, and converting each of the generic packets to the native packet format for transmission to the network; a communication channel for carrying the generic packets to and from the network interface module, the channel having bandwidth; a first processing module for controlling dynamic allocation and deallocation of the channel bandwidth to the network connected to the system via the network interface module; and a second processing module for receiving all of the generic packets put on the channel by the network interface module, determining a destination network interface module for each of the generic packets on the channel, determining whether each of the generic packet needs to be bridged to the destination network interface module, and transmitting each of the generic packets determined to need bridging to the destination network interface module via the channel.