Patent ID: 7574594

Claim:
A method of processing information communicated across a network using a frame-based network protocol, comprising: receiving a frame stream from across a network in a first information handling system configured as a first network node, said frame stream comprising one or more frames and inter-packet gaps having an inter-packet gap length, and each of said one or more frames being associated with one of said inter-packet gaps; using physical layer processing to examine said inter-packet gap length associated with each of said one or more frames; accepting a first frame of said one or more frames if said inter-packet gap length associated with said first frame is greater than or equal to a minimum inter-packet gap length specified for said network protocol, and if said inter-packet gap length associated with said first frame meets an inter-packet gap authentication criteria policy; and rejecting said first frame associated with said one or more frames if said inter-packet gap length associated with said first frame does not meet said inter-packet gap authentication criteria policy; wherein said first frame is preceded by said inter-packet gap.