CONTENT BASED VLAN CLASSIFICATION AND FRAMEWORK FOR ETHERNET NETWORK TO SUPPORT CONTENT BASED BRIDGING

摘要

The preferred methodology for classifying VLANs based on the content of a packet arriving at the edge switch involves receiving a policy that defines content based classification of VLANs for packets from a network management station; assigning a VLAN to the packet received from a node based on inspection of a content of the packet and the policy received from the network management station; and sending the packet with the assigned VLAN to other nodes in the network for operations based on the assigned VLAN.