WO1999037062A1 - Privileged virtual local area networks - Google Patents
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- LANs Local area networks
- Individual LANs may be bridged together to allow a larger number of users to communicate amongst themselves.
- These bridged LANs may be further interconnected with other bridged LANs using routers to form even larger communications networks.
- Figure 1 depicts a conventional interconnected bridged LAN system.
- the numerals 10, 20, 30, etc. are used to identify individual LANs.
- Bridges between LANs are designated by the numerals 5, 15, 25 and 35.
- a router between bridged LAN 100 and bridged LAN 200 is identified with the reference numeral 300.
- a user A is able to communicate with a user B without leaving the LAN 10.
- LAN network administrators generally attempt to connect together those users who frequently communicate with each other in bridged LANs.
- bridged LAN becomes too large, it becomes unscalable and may experience various well-known problems.
- routers are used to interconnect bridged LANs so that the bridged LANs themselves can be kept to an acceptable size. This results in delays in communications between users which are transmitted via the router 300.
- user E and user A need to communicate frequently, it would be advantageous to interconnect LAN 10 and LAN 50 via a bridge rather than the router 300. This would require the rewiring of the system which is costly and may be impracticable under many circumstances, such as, if users A and E will only need to frequently communicate over a limited period of time.
- a network management station (NMS) 300 controls the interconnection of the individual LANs such that LANs can be easily bridged to other LANs on a long term or short term basis without the need to rewire the network.
- NMS 300 has configured two VLANs by instructing, e.g., programming, the switches 5'-35' and 55' such that LANs 10-60 are bridged together to form VLAN 100' and LANs 70-90 are bridged together by switches 45' and 55' to form VLAN 200'.
- the switch 55' has been instructed to transmit communications from user A of LAN 10 to user E of LAN 50, since both users are configured within VLAN 100'.
- User A is not allowed to communicate with users H or F since these users are not configured within the VLAN 100' user group. This does not, however, prohibit users F and H, both of whom are members of VLAN 200', from communicating via switches 45' and 55'.
- Multicasting refers to the ability of a station on the network to simultaneously communicate a single message to a number of other stations on the network.
- the communication packet 400 includes a destination address 110 having six bytes, a source address 113 and a message portion 114.
- the I/G (Individual /Group) bit 112 is set to zero, the packet is directed to a single specified address. However, when the I/G bit 112 is set to one, the packet is transmitted to all LANs of the bridged LAN.
- the I/G bit of the destination address of the message packet would be set to one.
- the bridges 5 and 15 read this as a multicast address that is directed to all LANs within the bridged LAN 100. It will be recognized that multicast communications are not routed by routers such as router 300 of Figure 1. Accordingly, in a standard LAN system, multicast communications cannot be distributed between bridged LANs.
- multicast communications within a bridged LAN are distributed to all individual LANs, i.e., 10- 30 in Figure 1 , whether or not the sender desires the message to reach any member of a particular LAN within the bridged LAN, network bandwidth may be unnecessarily utilized.
- a VLAN network In a VLAN network, the aforementioned problems are avoided. First, because all switching is done at level 2, i.e., no level 3 routers exist in the system, multicast communications may be transmitted to network members on any LAN within the VLAN. Further, using the NMS 300, a VLAN can be configured to include only those individual LANs that include members to whom it is desired to transmit the multicast message. Accordingly, network bandwidth is not unnecessarily used to transmit multicast messages to individual LANs that lack members to whom the multicast communication is addressed. As will be recognized by those skilled in the art, as multicasting continues to grow in popularity, the amount of wasted bandwidth utilization in standard LAN networks has increased. Hence, the reduction in this unnecessary bandwidth utilization and the ability to multicast to any user within a VLAN provides significant advantages over standard LAN architectures.
- VLANs can be rearranged or reconfigured dynamically, the members within a multicast group can be increased or decreased simply by modifying the multicast VLAN using the NMS 300 of Figure 2. For example, if multicasting becomes excessive over VLAN 100', the NMS 300 can easily reconfigure the VLAN to exclude one or more LANs to reduce the multicasting overhead on the VLAN. That is, VLAN 100' could be reconfigured to, for example, exclude LAN 60, thereby reducing the communications overhead of the VLAN.
- FIG 4 is a schematic of an exemplary VLAN system.
- the VLAN system includes LANs 205-260 that are connected by switches 270-280 to a high-speed LAN backbone 265.
- An NMS 290 is interconnected to the switches 270-280 via LAN 260.
- a trunk station 285 is connected to the high-speed LAN backbone 265.
- the LANs 205-215, and 230-235 have designated members F-J.
- Each of the switches 270-280 is capable of directly interconnecting the respective LANs connected by access port 305 or 310 thereto, and also interconnecting each of these LANs to other LANs directly connected by an access port to another of the switches via the high-speed LAN backbone 265.
- switch 270 can be instructed by the NMS 290 to interconnect LAN 205 to LAN 215 by configuring a VLAN including LANs 205 and 215, thereby facilitating communications between members F and H.
- Switches 270 and 275 can also be instructed by the NMS 290 such that member F of LAN 205 can be interconnected by a virtual network to member I of LAN 230.
- Figure 5 depicts a VLAN communications packet 400' that is similar to the LAN communications packet 400 depicted in Figure 3, except that a VLAN header 116 has been added to the packet 400'. The header is appended by the initial switch to which the message packet is directed.
- the VLAN header identifies the resulting packet as a "VLAN" or "tagged” packet, and represents the particular VLAN from which the packet originated. For example, if in Figure 4, LANs 205, 220 and 230 are within a single VLAN and member F of LAN 205 desires to communicate with member I of LAN 230, the message 114 of Figure 5 with the map address 110 attached is directed to access port 305 of the switch 270. The switch determines, based upon instructions previously received from the NMS, that the member I address falls within the applicable VLAN and, accordingly, adds the appropriate VLAN header to the packet to form packet 400', as shown in Figure 5. The packet 400' is then directed via trunk port 315 to the high-speed backbone LAN 265 and read by switches 275 and 280.
- switch 280 Since switch 280 lacks any access ports connected to LANs within the applicable VLAN, switch 280 discards the communication.
- Switch 275 identifies the VLAN header 116 of packet 400' as associated with a VLAN that includes LAN 230. The switch 275 accordingly removes the header and directs the communication, which now appears as message 400 in Figure 3, to LAN 230 over which the member I receives the message.
- VLANs have numerous advantages over conventional interconnected bridged LAN configurations. However, to obtain these advantages the system must remain under control of the NMS. Thus, in conventional VLAN systems the NMS must be configured within each VLAN.
- the present invention provides a VLAN system with switch control protection.
- the present invention also provides a technique that ensures the availability of VLAN configuration control.
- the present invention provides a VLAN system that is not subject to switch control loss due to inadvertent operator error.
- a switch typically a multiported reconfigurable switch, is provided for use in a virtual communications network having multiple local area networks interconnected by multiple switches to form multiple virtual area networks.
- the switch includes a first communications or access port connected to a network resource and a second communications or trunk port connected via a trunk, to other switches in the virtual communications network.
- the network resource could, for example, be a network manager or network server, and may be a member of a local area network and/or one or more virtual networks.
- a control console associated with the switch, detects a communication from the network resource to an addressee. This may be accomplished by simply detecting all communications input to the first communications port and associating such communications with the network resource.
- the control console appends a privileged VLAN header to the communication and in this regard serves as a tagger.
- the privileged header is detectable by the other network switches that are connected by access ports to other local area networks, each of which may be within one or more virtual networks. Responsive to detecting the privileged header, these other network switches direct the communication to the addressee, even if the addressee is a member of a local area network within a virtual network(s) which excludes the network resource. The other network switches also direct the communication to the addressee, even if the network resource is a member of a local area network within one or more virtual networks which exclude the addressee's local area network. The privileged header is removed from the communication by these network switches prior to directing the communication to the addressee.
- Each of these other switches which are typically also multiported reconfigurable switches, includes a first communications or access port connected to the addressee's local area network and a second communications or trunk port connected, via the trunk, to the other switches in the virtual communications network.
- Each switch also includes a control console that allows the message portion of a communication addressed to an addressee, as a member of the applicable local area network within one or more virtual area networks, to be transmitted from the second communications port, which in this case serves as an input port, to the first communications port, which serves as an output port, if the message either includes a communication from a sender within the applicable virtual networks or a message included in a communication designated as privileged from a network resource outside the applicable virtual networks.
- the controller removes the privileged header from the privileged communication prior to allowing the message to be transmitted from the second or input communications port to the first or output communications port of the switch.
- the transmitting of the message from the input port to the output port is accomplished by controlling a switching device so as to transmit the message from the input port to the output port.
- the switching device along with the ports and controller, are typically part of the switch.
- the switching device is connected by the first communications port directly to the addressee's local area network, i.e., preferably there are no other switching devices between the first communications port and the addressee's local area network.
- a virtual communications network can be provided with multiple local area networks interconnected by multiple switches of the type described above to form multiple virtual area networks.
- a switching device which is part of a first switch, can link a network resource to a local area network that is within one or more virtual networks, all excluding the network resource, by appending a privileged header to a communication addressed to a member of the local area network.
- a tagger which is preferably part of the switch control console of the switch, can be used for this purpose.
- a switch controller which is preferably part of the control console of another switch, detects the privileged header and controls the switching device of this other switch, so as to direct the communication to the addressee responsive to detection of the privileged header.
- the controller removes the privileged header from the communication prior to the switching device directing the communication to the addressee.
- Figure 1 depicts a conventional LAN configuration
- Figure 2 depicts a conventional VLAN configuration
- Figure 3 depicts a conventional LAN message packet
- Figure 4 depicts a schematic diagram of a conventional VLAN system
- Figure 5 depicts a conventional VLAN message packet
- FIG. 6 depicts a schematic diagram of a VLAN system in accordance with the present invention.
- Figure 7 depicts a message packet in accordance with the present invention
- Figure 8 depicts a switch in accordance with the present invention for use in the system shown in Figure 6;
- FIG. 9 depicts another switch in accordance with the present invention for use in the system shown in Figure 6.
- FIG. 6 depicts a virtual communications network or system in accordance with the present invention.
- the network includes multiple local area networks (LANs) 205-260 interconnected by multiple multiported reconfigurable switches 270', 275' and 280' all connected by a high speed backbone LAN 265.
- LANs local area networks
- Each LAN, other than the backbone LAN 265, is connected to one of the switches 270', 275' or 280' by a communications or access port 305 or 310, while the backbone LAN 265 is connected to each switch by a communications or trunk port 315.
- a network management system (NMS) 290 which may be a workstation having the network management software loaded thereon, manages the network by configuring the network via the switches 270', 275' and 280' to form multiple virtual local area networks (VLANs).
- a trunk station 285, for example a network server, is connected directly to the backbone LAN 265 via a trunk port.
- the switch 280' is capable of linking the NMS 290, which is a member of LAN 260 and serves as a network resource, to other local area networks 205-255, each of which may be within one or more VLANs confirmed by the NMS 290.
- the LAN 260 which is connected to the switch 280' by access port 310, is not included in any of these virtual networks and therefore the NMS is not a member of any VLAN which includes LANs 205-255. It will, however, be recognized by those skilled in the art, that this will not necessarily be the case in all VLAN implementations.
- the switch 280' includes a control console 288 having a control module 284 and a memory 286 for storing and processing control instructions and VLAN configuration and privilege data, which may be initially programmed into the switch or transmitted to the switch by the NMS 290.
- the control module 284 includes a controller 284a for controlling the switching device 282.
- a detector 284b is provided for detecting a communication, which will typical include some type of message for a network user, received via trunk port 315 from the backbone 290 or via access ports 305 or 310 from the LANs 245-260.
- communications received from LAN 260 are transmitted to switch 280' via port 310.
- the detector 284b preferably treats all communications to a network addressee received via the port 310 as a privileged communication. Accordingly, all messages to a network addressee from the NMS 290 are identified as a privileged communication.
- the control module 284 also includes a tagger 284c for tagging or encapsulating such communications by appending a privileged header thereto.
- Figure 7 depicts a communications packet which, except as will be described below, is similar to the communications packet described above with reference to Figure 5. Like segments of the packets of Figures 5 and 7 are referenced with like numerals. The difference between the packets of Figures 5 and 7 resides in differences in the respective VLAN headers. More particularly, the packet 400' of Figure 7 includes a privileged VLAN header 116' in lieu of the conventional VLAN header 116 of packet 400'.
- the privileged VLAN header 116' is a special header which, as described above, is appended to each communication received by switch 280, via access port 310. All communications received via port 310 are appended with the privileged VLAN header 116' whether or not the LAN 260 is configured within one or more VLANs.
- the privileged VLAN header 116' is known to all other switches 270'-280' and stored in memory on each network switch.
- the privileged VLAN header 116' can, as will be understood by those skilled in the art, be easily arranged within any standard VLAN packet header protocol.
- the switches 270' and 275 each includes a control console 998 having a control module 994 and a memory 996 for storing and processing control instructions and VLAN configuration and privilege data that may be initially programmed into the switch or transmitted to the switch by the NMS 290.
- the control module 994 includes a controller 994a for controlling the switching device 992.
- a detector 994b detects a communication received via a trunk port 315 from the backbone 290 or via an access port 305 from the LANs 205-220 or 225- 240, as applicable.
- the detector 994b detects all communications over the backbone LAN 265 that have a privileged header appended thereto, e.g., all communications from the NMS 290 that have been tagged and transmitted by switch 280'.
- the controller 994a of the applicable switch 270' or 275' controls the switching device 992 to transmit the message from the input trunk port 315 to the applicable output access port 305.
- the control module 994 also includes a tagger 994c for discarding the tag by removing the privileged header from the communication, prior to the message being transmitted to the output access port 305. That is, the tagger 994c removes the privileged header from such communications prior to the controller 994a controlling the switching device 992 to transmit the message from the input trunk port 315 to the output access port 305.
- the controller 284a of the switch 280' controls the switching device 282 to transmit the message from the input port 310 to the applicable output port 305.
- the addressee is a member of a LAN connected directly to the same switch as the NMS 290, i.e., one of LANs 245-255, it may, in certain implementations be beneficial for the tagger 284c to append the header to the privileged communication, e.g., when the privileged communications will typically be addressed to numerous addressees on various LANs.
- the detector 284b may also be beneficial for the detector 284b to detect all communications after tagging by tagger 284c to determine if the privileged communication from the NMS is addressed to a member of any of LANs 245-255.
- the tagger 284c discards the privileged tag by removing the appended header from the communication prior to the message being transmitted to the output access port 305 of switch 280'. More particularly, the tagger 284c removes the privileged header from such communication prior to the controller 284a controlling the switching device 282 to transmit the message from the input access port 310 to the output access port 305.
- all messages from the NIMS 290 are identified as a privileged communication and forwarded to the appropriate addressee LAN whether the addressee is member of a LAN connected directly to switch 280' or another switch, i.e., whether or not the addressee is a member of a LAN which is connected to an access port 305 of the same or a different switch than that to which the NMS 290 is connected by access port 310. Further, the addressee receives messages from the NMS 290 whether or not the NMS and addressee are members of LANs configured within the same VLAN.
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