Neighbor Discovery for IPV6 Switching Systems

摘要

A distributed neighbor discovery module is disclosed where all neighbor discovery operations and functionalities may be distributed to a switch device processor. Each neighbor discovery process on a switch device may run as an individual neighbor discovery router node. There may be no coordination between neighbor discovery processes occurring on different switch devices. All other traffic, including both IPv6 control traffic and data traffic destined to the router may be processed by the central controller processor.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving IPv6 traffic; distributing the IPv6 traffic to a switch device processor running a neighbor discovery process if the IPv6 traffic comprises one or more neighbor discovery messages identified in an access list; and sending the other IPv6 traffic to a central processor for processing.