Patent ID: 7623518

Claim:
A method of developing an access control list, comprising: developing an enhanced access control list including data related to at least one of user names, DNS names, Windows domain names, and physical addresses; converting, in a network switch, at least one of: user names into corresponding IP and physical addresses according to data in the enhanced access control list, wherein converting user names into corresponding IP and physical addresses according to data in the enhanced access control list includes: detecting login packets being communicated over the network; determining a MAC address from the login packets; detecting server message block login packets being communicated over the network; determining an IP address from the server message block login packets; and developing records in the access control list using the obtained IP address for the respective user name; DNS names into corresponding IP addresses according to data in the enhanced access control list; and physical addresses into IP addresses according to data in the enhanced access control list; and developing, in the network switch, the access control list from each of the operations of converting.