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Patent Inventor Names
Sanjeev Hemantkumar Desai0
Madhu Sudan0
Ralph E. Droms0
Raman S. Krishnan0
John T. Chapman0
Date of Patent
May 10, 2011
Patent Application Number
11302966
Date Filed
December 13, 2005
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An embodiment method may comprise establishing a link layer connection to an access server, obtaining a management address, wherein the management address is at least one of an IPv6 and an IPv4 address, obtaining a TFTP server address, wherein the server address is either IPv6 or IPv4, downloading a configuration file from the TFTP server, registering with the access server as IPv6 capable, maintaining an IP address/prefix-MAC mapping database, and determining whether the IPv6 address belongs to a particular media access control (MAC) address based on the IP address/prefix-MAC mapping database.
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