Network including snooping

Details Network including snooping Network including snooping

2011-07-05

2011-07-05

Lin, Wen-Tai (Department: 2454)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer network managing

Computer network monitoring

C709S245000, C726S013000, C370S336000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07975048

ABSTRACT:
A computer network including:at least one switch connecting at least one edge device to the remainder of the network, said at least one switch including:snooping apparatus using DHCP to monitor the signal traffic through the switch to or from the each edge device to determine, without changing the traffic signals, for each edge device, the MAC address, the IP address, and the port of the switch to which it is connected, anda dynamic table within said switch of, for each edge device, the MAC address, the IP address, and the port which it is connected, the contents of the table being provided by said snooping apparatus.

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