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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2008
Hemant Singh, Westford, MA (US);
William Beebee, Acton, MA (US);
Madhu Sudan, San Jose, CA (US);
Joshua Littlefield, Wellesley, MA (US);
Hemant Singh, Westford, MA (US);
William Beebee, Acton, MA (US);
Madhu Sudan, San Jose, CA (US);
Joshua Littlefield, Wellesley, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network device is to receive traffic including neighbor discovery messages from requesting customer devices, and can detect the neighbor discovery messages within the traffic according to a distributed inspection scheme that includes the network device and a remote component. The network device is to then examine the neighbor discovery messages to determine if the neighbor discovery message should be forwarded to other of the customer devices, and respond to the requesting customer devices.