DATA FORWARDING METHOD TO SUPPORT MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL OVER THE TOP GATEWAY

摘要

A method and apparatus are described including configuring a single physical link between a gateway and a set top box as two logical links between said gateway and said set top box, receiving data from the set top box, updating a header of the data by setting a port based identifier to the first value, determining an address in the header of the data is an address of the gateway, transmitting the data to a port of the bridge wide area network, if the address in the header of the data is not an address of the gateway, updating the port based identifier to a second value, if the address in the header of the data is the address of the gateway and transmitting the data to an internet port of the wide area network.