Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic promiscuous forwarding for a bridge
- Patent Title (中): 自动混杂转发桥梁
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Application No.: US14038442Application Date: 2013-09-26
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Publication No.: US09306861B2Publication Date: 2016-04-05
- Inventor: Michael Tsirkin , Vladislav Yasevich
- Applicant: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: IL Ra'anana
- Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: IL Ra'anana
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L12/823 ; H04L12/46

Abstract:
An example system to disable a promiscuous mode of a network interface includes a plurality of local network interfaces. Each local network interface of the plurality is coupled over a network to one or more remote network interfaces. Each remote network interface is assigned one or more remote network addresses, and the plurality includes a local network interface in a promiscuous mode. The system also includes a bridge module that determines whether a list of all remote network addresses that are coupled to a subset of local network interfaces is known. The subset includes the plurality of local network interfaces excluding the local network interface. When the list of all remote network addresses that are coupled to the subset is determined to be known, the bridge module disables the promiscuous mode of the local network interface and adds all remote network addresses that are coupled to the subset to a filtering table.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150089037A1 AUTOMATIC PROMISCUOUS FORWARDING FOR A BRIDGE Public/Granted day:2015-03-26
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