Unicast to multicast conversion
AssigneeRuckus Wireless, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Kish, Charles Andrew Gram
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Abstract
A method for unicast packet conversion whereby a unicast packet is received at a receiving node followed by a determination as to whether the destination address is identified in the packet. If the address is identified, then the unicast packets are converted to a multicast packet and forwarded to a connected station. If a destination network address is not identified, then the packet is forwarded to the connected station.
Claims10
A packet-based transmission method, the method comprising:
- receiving a unicast packet at a network interface communicatively coupled to a receiving node;
- executing instructions stored in memory of the receiving node to determine that a destination address is identified in the packet;
- converting the unicast packet to a multicast packet in accordance with a map of media access control (MAC) addresses accessible to the receiving node and corresponding to one or more connected stations in a wireless network;
- and
- forwarding the converted packet to a connected station based on the MAC conversion map and using an 802.1x protocol.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a packet-based transmission method, the method comprising:
- receiving a unicast packet;
- determining that a destination address is identified in the packet;
- converting the unicast packet to a multicast packet in accordance with a map of media access control (MAC) addresses corresponding to one or more connected stations in a wireless network;
- and
- forwarding the converted packet to a connected station based on the MAC conversion map and using an 802.1x protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.