IP Library Granted Patent US 8,260,888
Granted Patent B2
US 8,260,888 · App. 12/882,021 · Granted Sep 4, 2012

Address configuration method, apparatus and system

Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,260,888
App. No.
12/882,021
Granted
Sep 4, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An address configuration method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. The method includes: after receiving a neighbor solicitation message sent by a terminal and inclusive of a Link-Local Address (LLA), comparing the LLA with addresses in an Internet Protocol (IP) address cache, and judging whether any address in the IP address cache matches with the LLA; and sending a proxy neighbor advertisement message to the terminal if an address in the IP address cache matches with the LLA, where the message indicates that the LLA is a duplicate address. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, after a neighbor solicitation message is received, duplicate addresses are detected for the LLA; after the Duplicate Address Detection (DAD), an IPv6 address is generated and delivered. In this way, IPv6 stateless address auto-configuration is realized on the terminal.

Claims (12)

1. An address configuration method, comprising:

after receiving a neighbor solicitation message that carries a Link-Local Address (LLA) sent by a terminal, judging, by a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) or Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS), whether the LLA is the same as an address stored in an Internet Protocol (IP) address cache of the BNG or BRAS;

if the LLA is different from any IP address stored in the IP address cache of the BNG or BRAS, storing, by the BNG or BRAS, the LLA into the IP address cache;

after receiving a router solicitation message, returning, by the BNG OR BRAS, a router advertisement message to the terminal in place of an access router of the BNG OR BRAS; wherein the router advertisement message carries an on-link prefix;

configuring, by the terminal, a global Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address of the terminal according to the obtained on-link prefix;

retrieving, by the BNG or BRAS, an interface identifier from the LLA; and

appending, by the BNG or BRAS, the interface identifier to the on-link prefix corresponding to the terminal to generate the global IPv6 address;

delivering, by the BNG OR BRAS, a binding relation between the global IPv6 address of the terminal and a MAC address of the terminal to an access node (AN).

2. The address configuration method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

binding, by the BNG OR BRAS, the global IPv6 address of the terminal to a MAC address of the terminal.

3. The address configuration method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

binding, on the AN, the global IPv6 address of the terminal to a MAC address of the terminal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 14, 2010
From: ZHENG, RUOBIN
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 024986/0548 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2008 1 0102783 · Mar 26, 2008 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2009071012 · Mar 25, 2009
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