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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2007
Applicants:
Joseph Olakangil, Midvale, UT (US);
Gregory G. Page, Sandy, UT (US);
Robert Leon Sangorinz, Cottonwood Height, UT (US);
Inventors:
Joseph Olakangil, Midvale, UT (US);
Gregory G. Page, Sandy, UT (US);
Robert Leon Sangorinz, Cottonwood Height, UT (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A switch and a method are described herein that are capable of performing the following steps: (a) receiving the unicast packet which is a L3 routed packet at a port in a first Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN); (b) routing the received packet to a loopback port in a second VLAN; (c) receiving the routed packet which is now a L2 multicast packet from the loopback port in the second VLAN; and (d) bridging the routed packet to multiple ports in the second VLAN.