Method and system configured for facilitating residential broadband service

摘要

A method for configuring an access node to provide residential routing functionality comprising populating a fixed match forwarding table with host entries learned during authentication of a residential router instance or during IP address assignment for the residential router instance, associating the residential router instance exclusively with a respective virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier, forwarding upstream traffic dependent upon the respective VLAN identifier and forwarding downstream traffic dependent upon a host entry designated by the downstream traffic being determined. The host entry is accessed from within the fixed match forwarding table. At least one logical interface associated with the residential router instance is provided. The IP packet received on a VLAN corresponding to the VLAN identifier is limited to being forwarded to one of the logical interfaces. Forwarding the upstream traffic includes ignoring a designated destination IP address of an IP packet and forwarding the IP packet toward a default gateway dependent upon the host entry.