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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2003
Applicants:
Maksim Ioffe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas A. Maufer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sameer Nanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Maksim Ioffe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas A. Maufer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sameer Nanda, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A firewall identifies unsolicited messages having an address resolution for a network protocol address different than cached address resolution information. The accuracy of the unsolicited messages is checked by requesting network elements to report address resolution information for the network protocol address.