Repeaters for secure local area networks
CA 2029577 C · Owner: 3Com Ireland · Inventors: Carter, Steven Howard; Gahan, Christopher John; Lockyer, Terence Denning
Overview
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A multiport repeater for a local area network installation has (in addition to its conventional functions) means for storing access rules for the items of equipment connected to it. It reads a portion of each frame, which may be all or part of the destination address segment and/or of the source address segment and/or of the control segment of each incoming data frame, or it could be a frame or protocol identifier incorporated in opening bytes of the data segment. It compares the data that it reads with the stored access rules to determine whether the frame is permitted or not. If not, it corrupts the frame which it is in the course of re-transmitting, for example by overwriting it with …
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- Filed November 8, 1990 and granted June 18, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 8, 2010.
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