Patent ID: 8774077

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, at a wireless access point in a network, a wireless advertisement frame having a source address field that indicates a reachable node being advertised, a destination address field that indicates a destination to which the reachable node is to be advertised, a transmitter address field that indicates a transmitting node from which the wireless advertisement frame is received, and a receiver address field that indicates the wireless access point; and transmitting, from the wireless access point, a reflected wireless advertisement frame having a source address field that indicates the reachable node, a destination address field that indicates the destination, a transmitter address field that indicates the wireless access point, and a receiver address field that indicates both (i) a plurality of receivers, by which the reflected wireless advertisement frame is to be accepted, with a range of multicast addresses, and (ii) the transmitting node, which is to be excluded from accepting the reflected wireless advertisement frame, with an association identifier.