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US 9,438,555 B2Granted
Communicating with a distribution system via an uplink access point
AssigneeAruba Networks, Inc.
InventorsGopalakrishna Raman, Santashil PalChaudhuri
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AssigneeAruba Networks, Inc.
InventorsGopalakrishna Raman, Santashil PalChaudhuri
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The present disclosure discloses a system and method for communicating with a distribution system via an uplink access point. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive, at a first network device, an original packet from a client device; identify a source MAC address of the original packet as a MAC address of the client device; identify an IP address of the original packet as an IP address of the client device; generate a modified packet from the original packet by changing the source MAC address from the MAC address of the client device to a MAC address of the first network device; preserve the IP address in the modified packet to be the IP address of the client device; and forward the modified packet from the first network device to a second network device.
A system comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing embedded instructions for a plurality of operations that are executed by one or more mechanisms implemented within one or more network devices, the plurality of operations comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.