US 2006/0080462 A1 · System for Meta-Hop routing

Abstract

A system for managing a distributed MetaHop that is administered, managed, and monitored as a single entity. If a new gateway is added to a MetaHop, the gateway can be provisioned with membership credentials by an administrator who indicates relatively basic information for the new gateway to join the MetaHop. Once provisioned with relatively basic information, the new gateway can be shipped to a relatively remote site where it automatically seeks out an entry point to the MetaHop. After connecting to an entry point (or entry points), the new gateway is automatically provisioned with any other information used to join the MetaHop. In one embodiment, the joined gateway is automatically enabled to forward traffic. In another embodiment, a new gateway is disabled for traffic forwarding until the administrator enables it for such forwarding on the MetaHop.

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Dependent claims

A system for providing secure communication, comprising:

a geographically distributed virtual internet protocol (IP) router that includes a plurality of gateways, wherein at least one tunnel is provided for each gateway to communicate with at least one of the other plurality of gateways, and wherein the geographically distributed virtual IP router performs actions, including:
enabling the geographically distributed virtual IP router to be administered as a single entity;
and
automatically reconfiguring a temporary tunnel for each tunnel in the geographically distributed virtual IP router that becomes unavailable for communication.

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