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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2003
Douglas M. Dillon, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Douglas M. Dillon, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Sungo, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus including a protocol stack, the protocol stack including an application layer, a network layer, and a physical layer, wherein the physical layer comprises a hardware interface between the apparatus and a network, wherein network-level tunnelling of a packet from the network layer, the tunnelling creating a packet having a plurality of network layer source addresses and a plurality of network layer destination addresses, takes place in the apparatus below the network layer but above the physical layer, wherein a driver operating in the apparatus below the network layer but above the physical layer effects the network-level tunnelling, and wherein the driver is configured to generate a reply to an ARP packet received from the network layer of the apparatus.