Apparatus and method for supporting establishment of network address of communication apparatus

• US 7,852,878 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2007
• Issued: 12/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jang, Hee-Jin, Choi, Jin-Hyeock
• Primary Examiner(s): Chou; Albert T
• Application Number:
  US11/806,910
• Publication Number:
  US 20080031278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,288 Days
• Field of Search: 370/338, 370/389, 370/328, 370/252
• US Class Current: 370/475
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/24 in which the allocation is indicated by an address the different channels being transmitted sequentiallyH04J3/17 takes precedence; in computers G06F12/00, G06F13/00 code multiplex systems H04J13/00; selecting techniques H04Q; relay systems H04B7/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/659 Internet protocol version 6 [IPv6] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/00 Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5014 using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5092 by self-assignment, e.g. picking addresses at random and testing if they are already in use

Abstract

An apparatus and method of setting an address of a communication apparatus is provided where when an access router transmits a Router Advertisement (RA) message to the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus sets an address establishment scheme of the communication apparatus according to a first field of the RA message. The RA message includes information about the address establishment scheme, which the communication apparatus is able to use, in the first field.

Claims

1. An apparatus for setting an address, the apparatus comprising:

an access router, wherein the access router transmits a Router Advertisement (RA) message to a communication apparatus, the RA message comprising information indicating which address establishment scheme the communication apparatus is to use for setting an address of the communication apparatus among a plurality of address establishment schemes that the communication apparatus supports,

wherein the information indicates whether the RA message comprises a full address usable by the communication apparatus, and whether the communication apparatus performs a duplicate address detection (DAD) with respect to the full address in order to set the address of the communication apparatus, and

wherein the address establishment scheme useable by the communication apparatus is dynamically changed.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information about the address establishment scheme corresponds to information about the address establishment scheme among the plurality of address establishment schemes usable by the communication apparatus for the address establishment of the communication apparatus.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when a first field of the RA message comprises a first value, the first value indicates that the communication apparatus is to use a full address acquired by the communication apparatus as an address of the communication apparatus without performing a duplicate address detection (DAD).

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when a first field of the RA message comprises a second value, the second value indicates that the RA message comprises a full address usable by the communication apparatus, and the communication apparatus uses the full address as an address of the communication apparatus without performing a duplicate address detection (DAD).

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein a prefix information option field of the RA message comprises the full address usable by the communication apparatus.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when a first field of the RA message comprises a third value, the third value indicates that the communication apparatus generates an auto-configured full address by using an EUI64 interface identifier.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the communication apparatus uses the auto-configured network address as an address of the communication apparatus without performing a duplicate address detection (DAD).

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when a first field of the RA message comprises a fourth value, the fourth value indicates that the communication apparatus uses a full address as an address of the communication apparatus when a Neighbor Advertisement (NA) message responding to a Neighbor Solicitation (NS) message comprising the full address of the communication apparatus comprises information indicating a uniqueness of the full address.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the full address corresponds to an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a first field of the RA message comprises the information about the address establishment scheme.

11. A communication apparatus, wherein the communication apparatus:

supports a plurality of address establishment schemes for setting an address of the communication apparatus;

receives a router advertisement (RA) message from an access router,

reads a first field of the received RA message, the first field indicating which address establishment scheme the communication apparatus is to use for setting an address of the communication apparatus; and

dynamically changes an address establishment scheme of the communication apparatus to the address establishment scheme indicated by the first field, among the plurality of address establishment schemes,

wherein the first field indicates whether the RA message comprises a full address usable by the communication apparatus, and whether the communication apparatus performs a duplication address detection (DAD) with respect to the full address in order to set the address of the communication apparatus.

12. The communication apparatus of claim 11, where the apparatus determines the address establishment scheme of the communication apparatus by using any one of the plurality of address establishment schemes according to the first field.

13. The communication apparatus of claim 11, wherein, when the first field comprises a first value, the communication apparatus sets a full address acquired by the communication apparatus to an address of the communication apparatus without performing a duplicate address detection (DAD).

14. The communication apparatus of claim 13, wherein the communication apparatus automatically sets DupAddrDetectTransmits, corresponding to a node variable of an interface which receives the RA message, to 0, so that the DAD is not performed.

15. The communication apparatus of claim 11, wherein, when the first field comprises a second value, the RA message comprises the full address usable by the communication apparatus, and the communication apparatus sets the full address as an address of the communication apparatus without performing a duplicate address detection (DAD).

16. The communication apparatus of claim 15, wherein a prefix information option field of the RA message comprises the full address usable by the communication apparatus.

17. The communication apparatus of claim 11, wherein, when the first field comprises a third value, the communication apparatus generates an auto-configured full address by using an EUI64 interface identifier, and the communication apparatus sets the auto-configured full address to an address of the communication apparatus without performing a DAD.

18. The communication apparatus of claim 11, wherein, when the first field comprises a fourth value, the communication apparatus transmits a Neighbor Solicitation (NS) message comprising a full address, receives a Neighbor Advertisement (NA) message responding to the NS message, and sets the full address as an address of the communication apparatus when the NA message comprises information indicating a uniqueness of the full address.

19. A method of setting an address of a communication apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a router advertisement (RA) message from an access router, the RA message comprising information indicating which address establishment scheme the communication apparatus is to use for setting an address of the communication apparatus among a plurality of address establishment schemes that the communication apparatus supports;

reading the received RA message; and

dynamically changing an address establishment scheme of the communication apparatus to the address establishment scheme indicated by the information of the RA message, among the plurality of address establishment schemes,

wherein the information indicates whether the RA message comprises a full address usable by the communication apparatus, and whether the communication apparatus performs a duplicate address detection (DAD) with respect to the full address in order to set the address of the communication apparatus.