Patent ID: 6687755
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
In a networked computing environment including a local area network containing one or more host computers, wherein a first IP address is generated by one of the host computers and a second IP address is received by the host computer on the local area network from an IP address server, a method for determining which IP address to use when a sending device in the local area network communicates with a destination device, the determination depending on whether the IP address received from the IP address server is in conflict, the method comprising the following:an act of automatically generating an IP address; an act of receiving an assigned IP address from an IP address server; an act of determining whether the assigned IP address received from the IP address server is in conflict; in response to the act of determining, if the IP address received is in conflict, an act of using the generated IP address; and in response to the act of determining, if the IP address received is not in conflict, an act of using the assigned IP address received from the IP address server.