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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2004
Applicant:
Erwin Alfons Constant Six, Kalken, BE;
Inventor:
Erwin Alfons Constant Six, Kalken, BE;
Assignee:
ALCATEL, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04J 3/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is related to a method to forward an Ethernet packet in an Ethernet based access network. It comprises the step of receiving the Ethernet packet at a network access node being part of the access network and further the step of transforming at the network access node a first Ethernet MAC address contained in the Ethernet packet into a second Ethernet MAC address. Either the first or the second Ethernet MAC address comprises subscriber or subscriber line identification. Subsequently the step of continuing the communication protocol is performed.