Patent ID: 6574664
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a first network having at least one node, each node associated with an abstracted physical hardware address and a physical hardware address, a method for discovering the abstracted physical hardware address and the physical hardware address associated with a node in the first network, the method comprising the steps of:providing at least one application procedure; providing in the first network a first discovery node and a second node, the first discovery node having a network management procedure and an address translation device, the address translation device having a capability to store the abstracted physical hardware address and the physical hardware address for the second node, the second node not having the network management procedure, the network management procedure having access to the address translation device and the application procedure having no access to the address translation device; requesting that the second node provide the abstracted physical hardware address and the physical hardware address of the second node; and storing the abstracted physical hardware address and the associated physical hardware address of the second node in a database accessible by the application procedure, wherein the abstracted physical hardware address and the physical hardware address are addresses of a non-SNMP manageable device, and the network management procedure is an SNMP agent.