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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2010
Mike Schlansker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jean Tourrilhes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yoshio Turner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mike Schlansker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jean Tourrilhes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yoshio Turner, San Francisco, CA (US);
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Illustrated is a system and method to generate a teaching message with a host device address that impersonates a device source address, the impersonation to instruct an additional network device as to the host device address. It further include a transmitter to transmit the teaching message to the additional network device. It also includes traversing a forwarding table to identify an additional network device that has yet to receive a teaching message since an expiration of a predefined threshold value, the teaching message to relate to a source device. It also includes a transmitter to transmit a teaching message to the additional network device.