System and method for MAC addressing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10063471-B2
Application number	US-201615177353-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 9, 2016
Priority date	Jun 17, 2015
Publication date	Aug 28, 2018
Grant date	Aug 28, 2018

Abstract

Method for MAC addressing in a device operating in OSI layers 2 and 3, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a connection request (400) from a first 2MAC client (102) wherein the request comprises: the client's (102) first MAC address gMAC (406) being globally unique, the client's (102) second MAC address uMAC (407) being unique within a local 2MAC clients (102, 105) group; and a target's IP address and port (408); establishing (401) a connection between the server (108) and the first 2MAC client (102). Additionally, there is presented a method for MAC addressing in a device operating in OSI layer 2 or OSI layers 2 and 3, the method comprising: constructing (253) a packet from a first 2MAC client (102) targeted at another 2MAC client (105) wherein the packet comprises: the client's (102) first MAC address gMAC (406) being globally unique and the client's (102) second MAC address uMAC (407) being unique within a local 2MAC clients (102, 105) group.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A Method for MAC addressing, in a client-server network, in a device operating in OSI layers 2 and 3, the method comprises the steps of:
providing said client-server network, which includes a plurality of 2MAC clients;
configuring said client-server network to include for each of said 2MAC clients:
a first MAC address gMAC which is globally unique, said gMAC address is the same for all of the 2MAC clients; and, a second MAC address uMAC, which is unique within a local 2MAC client group;

configuring at least one 2MAC server to allow communication between devices associated with 2MAC clients that are included within a 2MAC group, and with other 2MAC clients, wherein any 2MAC client communicating with another client outside of the 2MAC client group communicates via the 2MAC server using the MAC address of the 2MAC server as a destination address;
receiving a connection request from a first 2MAC client wherein the request comprises:
the gMAC address of the first 2MAC client;
the uMAC address of the 2MAC client; and,
an IP address and port of a target 2MAC client;

and,
establishing a connection between the 2MAC server and the first 2MAC client.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving data from a client addressed to the 2MAC client;
constructing an Ethernet packet based on the received data, for the 2MAC client comprising:
the client's first MAC address gMAC being globally unique,
the target client's first MAC address gMAC being globally unique,
the IP options field of the Ethernet packet comprising the client's second MAC address uMAC being unique within a local 2MAC clients group; and,

transmitting the packet to the 2MAC client.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the IP options field comprises option length word in order to ensure consistency of the packet.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the content of the IP options field is selected with regard to IANA-IP option numbers and RFC6814.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the IP options field comprises uMAC option type identifier, uMAC option length identifier, the destination uMAC, the own uMAC.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the destination uMAC and the own uMAC are 6-byte addresses.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending data received from the 2MAC client to the client.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions performing all the steps of the computer-implemented method according to claim 1 when executed on a computer.

9. A computer network which comprises:
a plurality of 2MAC (Media Access Control) clients, each of the 2MAC clients comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium, and having assigned:
a client's first MAC address gMAC, the gMAC address being globally unique, and the gMAC address is the same for all 2MAC clients; and,
a client's second MAC address uMAC, the uMAC address being unique within a local 2MAC clients group; and,

at least one 2MAC server, each comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium and configured to allow communication of devices associated with the clients: 1) within a 2MAC client group, and 2) with other 2MAC clients, and wherein any 2MAC client communicating with another client outside of the 2MAC client group performs this communication via the 2MAC server using MAC address of the server as a destination address.

10. The computer network of claim 9 , wherein each of said 2MAC clients has an Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned.

11. The computer network of claim 9 , further comprising a DHCP server wherein all of the 2MAC clients receive the same responses to DHCP queries and thus have the same IP address assigned by the DHCP server.

Assignees

• Advanced Digital Broadcast Sa

Inventors

• Dabrowski Bartosz

Classifications

• H04L45/66

  Layer 2 routing, e.g. in Ethernet based MAN's · CPC title

• H04L61/2596 Primary

  Translation of addresses of the same type other than IP, e.g. translation from MAC to MAC addresses · CPC title

• H04L61/6022

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L61/6068

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L45/74 Primary

  Address processing for routing · CPC title