公开(公告)号：US07046666B1

公开(公告)日：2006-05-16

申请号：US10006364

申请日：2001-12-06

申请人： Benn Bollay ,  David B. Donahue ,  Vinai Kolli ,  Thomas Obenhuber

发明人： Benn Bollay ,  David B. Donahue ,  Vinai Kolli ,  Thomas Obenhuber

IPC分类号： H04L12/28

CPC分类号： H04L29/12009 ,  H04L29/12018 ,  H04L29/12801 ,  H04L29/12933 ,  H04L61/10 ,  H04L61/6004 ,  H04L61/6068

摘要： A method for communicating across divergent network segments in a network. The network has a first network segment and a second network segment. The first network segment includes a switch that is controlled by a module that has instructions encoding a method. In the method, an ARP request packet is received from a first device. The ARP request packet includes a request to locate a second device. The first device is coupled to the first network segment and the second device is coupled to the second network segment. The ARP request packet is broadcast to the network segments outside of the first network segment and, as a result, a reply from the second network segment is received. The reply is transmitted to the first device, such that in use, ARP tables are modified on the first device and the second device so that future communication between said first device and said second device is enabled using a layer two communication protocol without any requirement for a layer three communication protocol.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在网络中跨越不同网段进行通信的方法。 网络具有第一网段和第二网段。 第一网段包括由具有编码方法的指令的模块控制的交换机。 在该方法中，从第一设备接收到ARP请求分组。 ARP请求分组包括定位第二设备的请求。 第一设备耦合到第一网段并且第二设备耦合到第二网段。 ARP请求报文广播到第一网段之外的网段，结果接收到来自第二网段的应答。 答复被发送到第一设备，使得在使用中，在第一设备和第二设备上修改ARP表，以便使得能够使用第二层通信协议来实现所述第一设备和所述第二设备之间的未来通信，而不需要 一个三层通讯协议。