Automatic allocation of prefixes to equipments of an ipv6 communication network

A communication equipment for an Internet Protocol communication network including a set of interfaces each connected to one or more other communication equipments and having means for receiving an address prefix from a first other communication equipment. It further includes allocation means for al...

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Main Authors BERESKI PHILIPPE, MONGAZON-CAZAVET BRUNO, CLEVY LAURENT
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 31.05.2007
Subjects
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:A communication equipment for an Internet Protocol communication network including a set of interfaces each connected to one or more other communication equipments and having means for receiving an address prefix from a first other communication equipment. It further includes allocation means for allocating to at least a portion of the other communication equipments to which the first other equipment does not belong a sub-prefix formed of the address prefix concatenated with an individual identifier whose length depends on the total number of other communication equipments.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20050587942