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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2002
Peter Loc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tyson Leistiko, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hedley Rainnie, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Peter Loc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tyson Leistiko, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hedley Rainnie, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for detecting a security breach in a network comprising an access point and a plurality of transceivers each having a different media access control address comprises, at one of the transceivers, receiving a signal from the access point, the signal representing one or more packets of data; determining a source media access control address for each of the packets; and transmitting an alert packet to the access point when the source media access control address of one of the packets is the media access control address of the transceiver.