A method and apparatus establish an address of a frame as being associated with a physical device or a virtual device. If the frame is associated with a virtual device, the address of the frame may be established as being associated with a local virtual device or a remote virtual device.
Methods and apparatus to provide a platform-level network security framework are described herein. In an example method, a packet associated with a processor system is identified. A platform-level network security protocol associated with an extensible firmware interface is identified.
Nodes on a wide area network ("WAN") such as the Internet may communicate with multiple Internet Protocol Version 6 ("IPv6") nodes on a private network despite the lack of domain name service ("DNS") server support. The nodes on the private network may obtain router advertisements and