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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2005
Ralph E. Droms, Westford, MA (US);
Madhu Sudan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjeev Hemantkumar Desai, Saratoga, CA (US);
John T. Chapman, Saratoga, CA (US);
Raman S. Krishnan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ralph E. Droms, Westford, MA (US);
Madhu Sudan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjeev Hemantkumar Desai, Saratoga, CA (US);
John T. Chapman, Saratoga, CA (US);
Raman S. Krishnan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment method may comprise establishing a link layer connection to an access server, obtaining a management address, wherein the management address is at least one of an IPv6 and an IPv4 address, obtaining a TFTP server address, wherein the server address is either IPv6 or IPv4, downloading a configuration file from the TFTP server, registering with the access server as IPv6 capable, maintaining an IP address/prefix-MAC mapping database, and determining whether the IPv6 address belongs to a particular media access control (MAC) address based on the IP address/prefix-MAC mapping database.