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Device discovery and configuration utilizing DHCP protocol

  • US 20040249906A1
  • Filed: 03/19/2003
  • Published: 12/09/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method employable in a computer-based IP network which includes no DHCP/BootP server, for nonetheless employing the DHCP protocol to discover a yet IP-unaddressed device connected to the network, and to assign such an address to that device comprising from a selected host device connected to the network selectively activating a DHCP protocol, and broadcasting an unsolicited DHCP response packet over the network, receiving a response in the form of a client request for an IP address from one or more such IP-unaddressed devices, selecting from that response a particular IP-unaddressed device to configure with an assigned IP address, and after said selecting, so assigning and configuring that selected device.

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