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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2008
Ludovic Hazard, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, FR;
Ludovic Hazard, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods for modifying a switching table of an Internet Protocol (IP) switch. The methods include: receiving a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) option 43 request from a host of a LAN at an access port of the IP switch; transmitting the request to a DHCP server; intercepting a DHCP response for the request from the DHCP server; extracting an IP address from the intercepted DHCP response; and adding the extracted IP address to a corresponding entry (specific to the access port) of a switching table of the IP switch. The methods include: receiving an IP frame at an access port of the IP switch; reading an IP source address from the IP frame; and in the switching table either: creating a new entry including the IP source address and its associated port identifier or changing an existing entry based on the IP source address and the access port.