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System and Method for Implementing Virtual Platform Media Access Control (MAC) Address-Based Layer 3 Network Switching
System and Method for Implementing Virtual Platform Media Access Control (MAC) Address-Based Layer 3 Network Switching
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机译:用于实现基于地址的虚拟平台媒体访问控制(MAC)第三层网络交换的系统和方法
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Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing virtual platform media access control (“MAC”) address—based layer 2 and layer 3 network switching. In some embodiments, a method might comprise receiving, at a network node in a network, a data packet having a header comprising a MAC destination address, and routing, with the network node, the data packet over open systems interconnection (“OSI”) model layer 3 or network layer of the network, based at least in part on the MAC destination address in the header of the data packet. The MAC destination address comprises a first portion comprising an organizationally unique identifier (“OUI”) and a second portion comprising an identifier for a destination network interface controller (“NIC”) and/or virtual NIC (“VNIC”), which might be associated either with the same service provider associated with the network node or the network or with a different service provider, content provider, and/or application provider.
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