Patent ID: 11924043
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
generate a Neighbor Discovery (ND) message at an originating node in a network environment implementing a ND Protocol, wherein the ND message includes attestation information includes metadata signed by the originating node, the ND message including a link layer address and an internet layer address of the originating node;
send the ND message to a recipient node that is implementing the ND Protocol in the network environment for identifying trustworthiness of the originating node based on the metadata signed by the originating node to manage connectivity between the recipient node and the originating node;
storing in a database, for a period of time, a map of the link layer address and an internet layer address, the period of time being a first amount of time when the originating node is not verified by the recipient node, and the period of time being a second amount of time when the originating node is verified by the recipient node, the first amount of time being shorter than the second amount; and
removing the map when the period of time expires.