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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2015
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Linda Dunbar, Plano, TX (US);
T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Susan Hares, Saline, MI (US);
Robert Sultan, Somers, NY (US);
Peter Ashwood-Smith, Gatineau, CA;
Guoli Yin, Ottawa, CA;
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A network component including a receiver configured to receive a plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for a plurality of hosts in a plurality of external Layer 2 networks located at a plurality of physical locations and interconnected via a service, a logic circuit configured to map the IP addresses of the hosts in the external Layer 2 networks to a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of a plurality of corresponding gateways in the same external Layer 2 networks, and a transmitter configured to send to the external Layer 2 networks a plurality of a plurality of IP addresses for a plurality of local hosts in a local Layer 2 network coupled to the external Layer 2 networks via the service.