BINDING OSI LAYER 3 IP CONNECTIONS TO OSI LAYER 2 FOR MESH NETWORKS

摘要

Embodiments for transmitting data in a mesh network through a binding process that groups to reduce the complexity of connections between sets of nodes in a mesh network. The process implements the connections at the OSI Layer 2 data link layer. An Ethernet bridge is created to bind all the tunnel connection with a specific node. A virtual NIC is used to generate a MAC address. The NIC behaves as a switch in routing traffic from the MAC address to bound tunnels from the bridge. A new IP address is generated to represent the MAC address so that communication between newly generated IPs can then work with any Internet protocols.