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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2008
Thomer M. Gil, Brookline, MA (US);
Sanjit Biswas, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Bicket, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomer M. Gil, Brookline, MA (US);
Sanjit Biswas, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Bicket, San Francisco, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A managed network receives client device requests for network addresses for communications over the managed network and computes a network address for a client device based on a hardware address of the client device, such as the MAC address of the client device, and returns the network address to the client device along with a predetermined gateway address for communications over the managed network with external networks. The MAC address is hashed to the network address that is assigned such that the client address will always receive the same network address whenever it accesses the managed network.