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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
May. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/256 ;
Abstract
A method for automatically connecting a DHCP endpoint to a VLAN in an ATM network having a switch operative to provide LAN emulation for a plurality of non-ATM endpoints, the method including the steps of maintaining a LEC for the VLAN in the absence of any request by any of the endpoints to communicate via the VLAN, the LEC having been previously established for the VLAN, connecting the DHCP endpoint to a port on the switch, determining a predefined association between the VLAN and either the address of the port or the network address of the DHCP endpoint, and mapping either the network address of the DHCP endpoint or the address of the port to the LEC for communication via the VLAN.