Apparatus and methods for routerless layer 3 forwarding in a network,申请号US19980132030-传众专利搜索

Apparatus and methods for routerless layer 3 forwarding in a network

申请公布号：US6256314(B1)

申请号：US19980132030

申请日期：1998.08.11

申请公布日期：2001.07.03

申请人：

AVAYA TECHNOLOGY CORP.

发明人：RODRIG BENNY;SHABTAI LIOR

分类号：H04L29/06;H04L12/44;H04L12/56;(IPC1-7):H04L12/56;G06F15/16

主分类号：H04L29/06

摘要：A layer 3 forwarding method for layer 3 forwarding an individual packet from a station I to a station II wherein the packet's layer 2 destination includes a router within the network which is reachable from a network element A via which stations I and II are connected to the network, the router storing ARP information, the method including providing network element A with a capability to perform layer 3 forwarding of a packet from station I to station II, wherein the providing step includes learning, on the part of network element A, of forwarding information used by the router to forward packets from station I to station II, by reading the ARP information of the router and performing layer 3 forwarding on the individual packet, at network element A.