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Patent No.:

US 9654392 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 26, 2013
Applicant:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventors:

Daniel Borkmann, Urdorf, CH;

Thomas Graf, Fehraltorf, CH;

Assignee:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/721 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/66 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 45/741 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hypervisor running on a host machine identifies a first media access control (MAC) address prefix associated with the host machine, wherein the first MAC address prefix comprises one or more bits that are shared by MAC addresses for virtual machines hosted by the host machine. The hypervisor configures the host machine to filter packets based on a first MAC address prefix filter, wherein the first MAC address prefix filter passes packets addressed to MAC addresses that have the identified first MAC address prefix. The hypervisor assigns MAC addresses having the first MAC address prefix to a plurality of virtual machines that will be hosted by the host machine.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Borkmann, Daniel. (2017). Mac address prefixes used on virtual machine hosts (U.S. Patent No. 9654392). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9654392

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