摘要:
To explicitly identify network devices without providing a database server using an IPv6 address. An IPv6 address for address management on a network is set in a network device connected to an IPv6 network and the network device keeps and maintains the address. An interface ID 12 of the IPv6 address is composed of a maker ID 13, a management ID 14, a device ID 15, and a function ID 16. Maker information kept and maintained by a maker of the network device is assigned to the maker ID 13 and a number indicating management by a device type is assigned as a number indicating a management system type to a device the management ID 14. The device ID 15 has numbers indicating a device type 17, a product type 18, and a product serial number 19. A number indicating a function of the network device is assigned to the function ID 16.
摘要:
An automated and distributed method is provided for configuring addressing of nodes in a wireless network, where the nodes includes at least one wireless interface and a network interface which connects to an external network. Briefly, the method includes: assigning a wireless network address to the wireless interface associated with the node; assigning another external network address to the external network interface associated with the node in a manner where a subnet identifier of the network address for the external interface correlates to a host identifier of the network address for the wireless network. The method may further include assigning further network addresses to one or more network devices which share the same subnetwork as the external network interface of the node.
摘要:
An improved method is provided for switching paths at a network routing device residing in a multicast distribution environment. The method includes: maintaining a plurality of predetermined path sets in a data store associated with the network routing device, where each path set corresponds to a given network condition and defines a path for each data transmission session; receiving a message indicative of a current network condition at the network routing device; selecting a path set from the plurality of predetermined path sets, where the selected path set correlates to the current network condition; and configuring the network routing device in accordance with the selected path set.