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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2006
William M. Shvodian, McLean, VA (US);
Joel Z. Apisdorf, Reston, VA (US);
William M. Shvodian, McLean, VA (US);
Joel Z. Apisdorf, Reston, VA (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A network bridge () is provided, comprising: a local interface () configured to transmit and receive local signals in a local network (); a bridging interface () configured to transmit and receive bridging signals in a bridging network (); a control circuit () configured to pass outgoing local data packets from the local network to the bridging network and to pass incoming bridging payloads from the bridging network to the local network; and an address translation circuit () configured to provide the control circuit with address translation data identifying a correspondence between local packet addresses and global packet addresses. The control circuit translates outgoing local addresses to outgoing global addresses (), and the control circuit translates incoming global addresses to incoming local addresses (), based on the address translation data.