Inventors:
Michael Ross - Great Falls VA, US
Matthew Pollack - Falls Church VA, US
Assignee:
The MITRE Corporation - McLean VA
International Classification:
H04L 12/56
Abstract:
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for propagating broadcast packets among several subnets without configuring routers to forward broadcast packets is provided. The broadcast packets are propagated between subnets as unicast or multicast packets. Further, the broadcast packets are efficiently propagated to only the subnets that desire broadcast propagation.