公开(公告)号：US20170187619A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-29

申请号：US15457559

申请日：2017-03-13

Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.

Inventor： Amit SHUKLA ,  Ronak SHAH

IPC: H04L12/741 ,  H04L29/12

CPC classification number: H04L45/74 ,  H04L12/56 ,  H04L45/745 ,  H04L61/10 ,  H04L61/20 ,  H04L61/6004 ,  H04L61/6022 ,  H04L61/6045

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus can include a filter module configured to receive multiple Media Access Control (MAC) addresses associated with multiple virtual ports instantiated at a first network device. Each virtual port from the multiple virtual ports can be associated with a MAC address from the multiple MAC addresses. The filter module can be configured to define a filter to be applied to a data frame sent between the first network device and a network switch, the filter being based at least in part on a MAC address prefix included in each MAC address from the plurality of MAC addresses. The MAC address prefix can include an identifier uniquely associated with a second network device at which the filter module operates.